Obama's Afghanistan Policy Reaches Its Expiration Date

I expected this all along, because if the Left is willing to fight a war at all, it's not going to be the one you're in right now. This is a corollary to the only weapons systems libs will vote for (other than those produced in their own districts) are the versions that are not ready to be built yet.

If Obama thinks the war is unwinnable, it would have been nice for him to tell the American public during the campaign, instead of completely reversing himself on a key provision of his foreign-policy vision less than a year into his presidency. Why, if we didn't know any better, we might think that Obama was dovish and unwilling to defy his party's pacifist grassroots the whole time, and that all of his "this is a war that we have to win" talk during the campaign was empty window-dressing to hide an out-of-the-mainstream worldview. [From Obama's Afghanistan Policy Reaches Its Expiration Date - Jim Geraghty - The Campaign Spot on National Review Online]