The three fallacies that have driven the war in Afghanistan
A bloody escalation in the war is more likely to fuel jihadism than thwart it. If Obama is serious about undermining this vile fanatical movement, it would be much wiser to take the hundreds of billions he is currently squandering on chasing after a hundred fighters in the Afghan mountains and redeploy it. Spend it instead on beefing up policing and intelligence, and on building a network of schools across Pakistan and other flash-points in the Muslim ... Full Story »
Posted by Chris Finnie
Obama should be thinking about how best to allow India, Iran, China, Russia, and other countries in the vicinity of Afghanistan, work out a means of lowering the level of violence. US military presence in that country already is much too prominent.