Gene Lyon writes...

[mooseandsquirrel]

LITTLE ROCK — “All that we have to do is to send two mujahedeen to the furthest point east to raise a piece of cloth on which is written ‘al-Qa’ida’ in order to make generals race there, and we cause America to suffer human, economic and political losses-without their achieving anything of note.”-Osama bin Laden, November 2004 One sign of a movement that’s lost touch with reality is its preference for political melodrama.

Out on the ragged edges of America’s misconceived war on terror, events in Afghanistan daily dramatize the awful situation confronting President Obama. He appears to have no good options. To be sure, he invited trouble, telling an audience at a Veterans of Foreign Wars convention last August that “this is not a war of choice. This is a war of necessity.”

Obama may not then have understood how bad things were in that remote corner of Asia historically designated the graveyard of empires-or his Washington foes’ willingness to put party over country for short-term political advantage. Any doubts oughtto have been resolved by the recent contributions of the Cheneys, father and daughter.

First came former Vice President Dick Cheney, architect of today’s failing policy. To “Big Time,” everything boils down, as everything always does, to a question of toughness.

“The White House,” he announced, “must stop dithering while America’s armed forces are in danger.”

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[sinkingfeeling]

1. He's right on as usual.