Not An Impossible Thought

I wish someone was taking this a little more seriously right now...I don't know, the media, or Congress, or someone...but seriously, it seems to me we might be in the process of giving away the War on Terror not unlike the way you see teams like the Orlando Magic just give away games in the fourth quarter to the Lakers.

Giving Obama the blank check on this issue because the country was tired of George Bush could prove to be an utterly catastrophic choice. We are pulling back from Iraq - good - but is the pace too fast? We are witnessing an uptick in violence as we leave. Will Obama just write this off as "well, it is all Bush's fault?" Can we let him?

Meanwhile, those troops aren't coming home. They are being sent to the most treacherous country on the planet to fight a war with "no end in sight," with no strategic goal, and where Al Queda no longer operates from.

Personally, by the end of Bush's term, the WOT seemed to be going pretty well, all things considered. Iraq was holding. Al Queda hadn't pulled off an attack in the US since 9/11 and I don't know if they pulled anything since the Madrid bombing. They were reduced to a video-production organization. Afghanistan was unstable, but also not a haven for terrorists. It's not clear to me we weren't winning a war of attrition against these guys. Who said we needed to change?