THE PROBLEM ISN'T OWNING THE WAR...:

'Obama's war' - New troops and new plan (MIKE ALLEN, 3/26/09, Politico)

President Barack Obama plans to commit to sending 4,200 more troops and hundreds more civilians to Afghanistan in a speech at the White House on Friday morning, and also to embrace a new system of benchmarks to measure progress.

“He’s gone all in,” said an official briefed on the plan. “This is Obama’s war. He’s pushed all the chips to the center of the table.”

The 4,200 troops will be trainers to help expand the Afghan army. “We’ll see if we ultimately need to go beyond that,” the official said.

...it's that, quite unlike Iraq, there is no eventual peace that the war is working towards. Iraq was just a matter of establishing the conditions under which Kurds and Shi'a could govern themselves. What is the goal in Afghanistan?

Posted by Orrin Judd at March 26, 2009 10:10 PM