This is shocking:
Escalation is a bad idea. The Democrats backed themselves into defending the idea of Afghanistan being The Good War because they felt they needed to prove their macho bonafides they called for withdrawal from Iraq. Nobody asked too many questions sat the time, including me. But none of us should forget that it was a political strategy, not a serious foreign policy.
There have been many campaign promises “adjusted” since the election. There is no reason that the administration should feel any more bound to what they said about this than all the other committments [sic] it has blithely turned aside in the interest of “pragmatism.”
That’s from liberal blog Hullabaloo.
And since Obama has not acted on General McChrystal’s request to send more troops ASAP – not yet anyway – and has been stalling instead, I’m starting to suspect that Hullabaloo may not be the only liberal who pretended to support the war effort in Afghanistan out of opportunism and ambition rather than out of principles and conviction.
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