Jerry wrote:

“I think Obama’s love affair with a surge in Afghanistan will be a short lived one. It is just a variant of the old Cold War technological filibuster that the Democrats used to try to stop US military modernization. Once we are out of Iraq then Obama would declare Afghanistan a hopeless quagmire that we cannot win and then pull out.”

Just so. And good comments by DLA and RWE, among others.

Amazing how the memory hole swallows so much recent history whole. Does anyone remember, or am I delusional, that the left decried the Afghan incursion as suicidal, misguided, imperialistic, Islamophobic, etc., etc., ad nauseam, with a chorus of Islamic nations similarly decrying the invasion?

Then, under presessure, the Taliban collapsed and fled. This U.S. victory was a bitter disappointment for the left.

Not even the left remembers its opposition to the U.S. Afghan incursion. That is why Sen. Obama can get by with his Afghan talking points, at least for now.