And…it begins

Senators John Kerry and Richard Luger expressed dounts doubts that this administration has a clear strategy to end the war in Afghanistan according to the Associated Press.

Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said it’s not clear that the administration has a solid strategy for prevailing, and the panel’s ranking Republican, Richard Lugar of Indiana, decried “a lack of clarity” about U.S. war goals.

Their complaints were aired at a hearing in which the administration’s special envoy for Afghanistan and Pakistan, Richard Holbrooke, acknowledged that the way ahead remains in doubt.

And we wonder why an enemy who should be broken and bedridden by now is still mounting more ferocious attacks than ever before. It’s because jackasses like Kerry and Luger give them hope. Well, and apparently the Obama Administration isn’t averse to giving them a glimmer now and then, too. We’ve spent almost a year telegraphing our intent to increase the numbers of troops there – something we hope to complete by next month. next month will be a year since McChrystal made his initial request for more troops, by the way.

We’re using air support 75% less than we were three years ago. And we have a president that’s just looking for any excuse to abandon Afghanistan. Now, John Kerry, who probably has memories of hunting Taliban in Pakistan last Christmas whie George Bush was president seared in his increasingly feeble mind (he’d still be president if he had won in 2004, you know).

Luger ain’t much better, either. I know some of you predicted withdrawal by November, I’m coming around to that same conclusion. It’d rescue all of the votes from the chanting class which Democrats are slowly losing. And Matthis will declare victory.

Category: Antiwar crowd, Barack Obama/Joe Biden, Congress sucks