Pakistan: the war is on

But I give him props for going with the surge in Iraq when the Democrats and kumbaya crowd were declaring we had lost.

But you have lost in Iraq.

As it is, His Majesty Obama is getting wobbly.

Thats not surprising, any effort needs a local basis to work.
In Iraq it was OK, you had the Iranians friends in power and sufficient local support for them so as to be able to buy off enough of the opposition to get relative stability
In Afghanistan there is none of that. There is not enough domestic support for Karzai or any of his warlord/drug baron friends, they have no regional power backing them. Plus the opposition is too large and too diverse for it to be possible to buy enough of them off to obtain that needed window of relative stability.

I think the core failure of your position is well illustrated by this....

if only we had a President who would get off the pot and decide to honor his campaign pledge to send in more troops and scrub Afghaistan clean of the Taliban..

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The Taliban are now only a very small part of the increasingly complex problem.
It appears that Obama now realises that, as do more and more of Americas military leaders and its diplomats.