Pakistani Taliban supporters pray for those killed in an alleged US missile strike.(Tariq Mahmood/AFP/Getty Images)
From Newsweek:
The champion of the Iraq surge argues that now is no time to go soft on another front.
Just three months ago, Afghanistan was the "good" war. It was, according to all the conventional wisdom, the "real" central front in the war on terror, the war we had to win, the place to fight Al Qaeda, and the war we should have been focusing on all along. Nothing much has changed in Afghanistan since Barack Obama won the election, but conventional wisdom is swinging fast to the opposite viewpoint. Opinion makers on the left and the right are discovering that Afghanistan is hard to fix, that Al Qaeda is really in Pakistan, and that the "good war" might not be so good after all.
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My Comment: Afghanistan is not Vietnam .... it has the potential to be something worse.
The men who are fighting against us in Afghanistan have their eyes on bringing the conflict to us in our own country. To them .... 9/11 was just the first major attack. Their intentions are still the same .... which is to kill millions.