[Archive]

Posted By: barrysloate

You are right Jeff, the war in Afghanistan should have been a high priority. In fact, in spite of my liberal bent, if I thought Osama was hiding there at the time (and he probably was) I would have voted for wiping the country off the map. But for some reason we left there and went into a place that was arguably dangerous but not the focus of our immediate concern. Nobody, not even the most conservative, can honestly say things are going well in Iraq. Even some of our generals want to bow out. But our president feels it is a sign of weakness to admit a mistake, so this is the morass we are left with.