Could Obama Lose Afghanistan? -- A Commentary

Could Obama Lose Afghanistan? -- A Commentary

From The Wall Street Journal:

Why support is wavering for the "good war."

It was like an unwelcome specter from an unhappy past: "Could Afghanistan Become Obama's Vietnam?" asked the New York Times headline this past Sunday.

"President Obama had not even taken office before supporters were etching his likeness onto Mount Rushmore as another Abraham Lincoln or the second coming of Franklin D. Roosevelt," wrote the paper's Peter Baker:

Read more ....
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203706604574372691482587678.html

A long and thoughtful analysis. This is a must read.

So .... could President Obama lose Afghanistan?

Hmmm .... from where I stand .... he (we) already have.

A few days ago another commentary suggested why we have already lost Afghanistan .... Saturday, August 22, 2009
Could Afghanistan Become Obama’s Vietnam? -- A Commentary From The WNU Editor
http://warnewsupdates.blogspot.com/2009/08/could-afghanistan-become-obamas-vietnam.html