Wednesday, June 23, 2010
"... an accurate and detached view of things - but 'sad' this turn is not - if I can say so without sounding gratuitously flippant this is probably a good thing and in many ways no doubt inevitable... Obama's foreign policy [and his presidency in general] is a mess and this episode nicely pulls back the curtain on the fact... reality is we weren't gonna succeed in Afghanistan anyway, not with this administration managing a dubious strategy in accordance with an extremely foolish 'deadline' - and besides, regardless of that, a good case can be made that McChrystal wasn't the right man for job to begin with... so why not consider this a good thing since the ugly truth is now out there for all to see... Afghanistan is a deadly serious puzzle that will continue to confound and resist easy explication... and when Obama embraced this war during the primaries he very clearly revealed two things about himself, namely, that he's a shameless political opportunist who is desperately ignorant and in over his head when it comes to foreign policy and war..."
