I'm Afraid He's Right

IBDeditorials.com: Editorials, Political Cartoons, and Polls from Investor's Business Daily -- Knowing When To Cut Forces In Afghanistan: "instead, forces should be substantially reduced to serve a comprehensively revised policy: America should do only what can be done from offshore, using intelligence, drones, cruise missiles, airstrikes and small, potent special forces units, concentrating on the porous 1,500-mile border with Pakistan, a nation that actually matters."

I'd be very skeptical of the Afghanistan effort at this point if we had a hawk in the White House. How long could he keep an impatient American electorate behind the effort? But with a leftist President, beholden to MoveOn.org, I really worry that, as George Will argues, the will to see this thing through is clearly not going to be there long term. And it's obvious our vaunted allies are not committed for the long haul. Let's face reality now, and come up with an alternative plan to maximize the disprution of Al Qaeda operations in the region and minimizes Al Qaeda and Taliban interference in Pakistan.