Read Tom Engelhardt on Afghanistan and weep. Engelhardt offers the speech that Obama is not going to give, the speech that announces that we are withdrawing from Afghanistan on an orderly basis.
Obama simply can't do this, as we all know, not because withdrawal is wrong
but because we can't handle the truth anymore in our politics. The truth
will produce an uproar by the right wing and Fox News and we can't
handle that. The right already has moderate to conservative
Democrats scared to death on health care reform; that's nothing compared with a "soft
on terrorism" campaign. Think how that will play in Arkansas, or Nebraska, or wherever.
There goes another $100 billion dollars a year in defense spending and here comes a growing Taliban presence, a strengthened Al Qaeda, and yet another endless American war. And that $100 billion will sail through Congress, unlike the $100 billion annual costs for health care reform.
And we thought we were electing a president and a Democratic majority with courage.
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