End of semester crunch (and looming book deadline) leave me little time for blogging, but I might recommend this piece from Dan Balz in Sunday's WaPo. Obama has no good options, at least among the ones evidently up for serious consideration. He's going to get hammered politically, no matter what he decides on the size of his "surge." But I'm afraid that once he boosts troop numbers - unless some measurable "progress" is made soon, with little loss of life, and a big light starts shining at the end of the proverbial tunnel - his Afghan war is going to become "in for a dime, in for a dollar." If Lyndon Johnson were still alive, he could tell Obama all about that. Speaking of which . . .
A must-read is William Polk's magisterial guest contribution at Juan Cole's Informed Comment site . . .
A must-read is William Polk's magisterial guest contribution at Juan Cole's Informed Comment site . . .
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