If Barack Obama's idea of ending the occupation in Iraq is to transfer most of the troops to Afghanistan, he won't have accomplished much.

He's right that we should not be in Iraq, but we also shouldn't be in Afghanistan.  

Our sole interest in Afghanistan should be to get Osama bin Laden. After that, we should bring our guys home.

It's none of our business what kind of government Afghanistan has or if it even has a government.  In case you've forgotten, the northern warlords seized Kabul after the Russians left. Their looting and brutality caused many Afghans to look with favor on the young men of the Taliban.

The Taliban whipped the warlords and began to rule the country with their iron-fisted version of Islam.  

Now, five years later, the Bush people are wringing their little hands that the situation in Afghanistan has gone to Hades, and in typical American fashion, both Bush and Obama seem to think the only answer is more troops.

It's funny, in a morbid sort of way.

Bush was wood-post ignorant of Iraq, and apparently Obama is wood-post ignorant of Afghanistan.  

The Afghans are a people who rather enjoy fighting. It's been said that if they run out of foreigners to fight, they will fight each other.

It would take more troops than we have to occupy Afghanistan, which is about the size of Texas. It is run by the warlords and is a major producer of opium. Corruption is rampant.  

Obama needs to be forced to come clean and spell out in specific detail exactly what he wishes to accomplish in Afghanistan and how much blood and treasure he's willing for the American people to spend to get it. He needs to be forced to tell the American people what, if any, benefits they will get in exchange for the lost lives and tax dollars.  

Obama is younger, smarter and better educated than John McCain, but that said, he is your standard political liberal and opportunist.

Swapping one quagmire for another is hardly a brilliant foreign policy.  

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