Post Partisanship Kills

The likelihood of the US putting down the Taliban/Pashtun uprising in Afghanistan is very small. The likelihood of the Karzai government to reform, cut way down on corruption and start working for the people is also almost nonexistent. Still Obama has decided to throw in more troupes in a futile attempt to overcome both problems. It is not even clear whether a military force is the right tool for these tasks.

There is a possibility that some non-GOP individuals believe that the tasks are accomplishable, but they should be only a few of them. Those are the same people that cannot see how the US slides further behind European countries even in amenities and technology. We don't have and don't plan to have fast trains, our wind energy is well behind and even in solar energy even the Chinese produce better products.

Obama's job on Afghanistan is both very simple and very complex at the same time. He can clean his hands from Afghanistan. This will change nothing security wise, because even when the Taliban eventually take over, Al Qaida, or what is left of it, will stay in the safety they currently enjoy in Pakistan.

Since Obama didn't come out of the gate with guns blazing, exactly what Clinton did in 1993, he became this accommodating, moderate and compromising president. As such, he cannot withdraw from Afghanistan or send a token 2000 soldiers in a clear indication that he gave up on it. He decided not to attack Bush daily, a grave mistake, so he can't pin the problem on Bush/Cheney and go on to the next problem. He became captive to his own postpartisan rhetorics.

So now we will have two major wars none of them serves any real purpose except wasting billions we could use to reduce unemployment, invest in future productive and long lasting projects and more importantly stop killing our own kids on foreign lands.