It is not clear to me what the size of the stick needs to be to whack the president and his advisors hard enough to wake them up. The people already understand--and have known from the beginning--that the Afghanistan War is a disaster. We are smarter than the White House--and we don't need to be fed the "secret intelligence" to know what's what. Check this out.
Today, we hear again that the war will not end soon:
The Obama administration’s long-awaited assessment of the Afghanistan war may come as soon as next week. But commanders on the ground here have already reached their own verdict.
"We’re going to need more time," says Maj. Gen. John F. Campbell.
And this just in:
Six NATO service members were killed Sunday in an insurgent attack in southern Afghanistan, the international alliance said in a statement...
More than 670 international troops have been killed so far this year, well above the 502 killed in the whole of 2009.
It was obvious long ago--long before the president's goofy painful assessment of the war that led to a a troop increase--that the supposed withdrawal of troops promised to being next year would never happen.
It was obvious that we were going to be played.
It was obvious that, at some point, the president would come before the country and say something to the effect, "Times are tough, we need more time, the war is crucial" etc. etc...
You did not need to read the story about the Administration being played by a phony high-level "insurgent" leader or be surprised by today's story that a very big heroin trafficker was also a paid informant for the CIA to understand this:
This has got to end. This is an immoral waste of human life and money.
The people already know this. There was this:
American support for the war in Afghanistan has ebbed to a new low, as attacks on U.S. troops and their allies have hit record levels and commanders are pleading for reinforcements, a USA TODAY/Gallup Poll shows.
In the poll taken Saturday and Sunday, 42% of respondents said the United States made "a mistake" in sending military forces to Afghanistan, up from 30% in February. That's the highest mark since the poll first asked the question in November 2001 when the U.S.-led invasion ousted the Taliban government that sheltered al-Qaeda terrorists responsible for the 9/11 terror attacks.
In January 2002, 6% of respondents called the war "a mistake."
Those who said the war is going well dropped to 38% in the latest poll, the lowest percentage since that question was asked in September 2006.
The president is sinking more deeply into this quagmire every single day. He is killing American soldiers unnecessarily--not to mention thousands of civilians in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Enough.