May 7, 2008 10:36 AM

Losing in Afghanistan

Did anyone notice the report in yesterday's Wall Street Journal reporting that "the Pentagon has concluded that it can't send more troops to Afghanistan until sizable numbers of forces withdraw from Iraq".

It seems widely acknowledged that more troops are needed in Afghanistan, and nobody else is willing to send anything more than a few hundred.

We are out of troops. Zero sum game.

So the choice is pretty simple. We let the Taliban keep gaining strength in Afghanistan so we can maintain a failed policy in Iraq. Is it relevant that it was, after all, the Taliban who supported bin Laden, who after all really did attack the U.S.?

I wonder what John McCain would do while not dreaming about bombing Iran?