WELL, ANY TIME HE DIVERGES FROM HIS PREDECESSOR HE DOES MAKE A MESS:

Obama Afghanistan Plan Breaks Old Ground (Bobby Ghosh, 3/28/09, TIME)

Did George Bush leave one of his old speeches in the Resolute Desk? As President Obama unveiled his Afghanistan-Pakistan policy Friday, it was hard to miss the echoes of his predecessor's "surge" strategy in Iraq. Indeed, says James Dobbins, the State Department veteran who served as President Bush's first envoy to Afghanistan, Obama's plan is "largely an extension of where the Bush Administration, in its last years, was heading,with some refinements and additions."