Neither the right nor the left wants to talk about Afghanistan.
The staunchest supporters of Obama’s military policies right now are Republicans, and they sure don’t want to come out in favor of this president at this moment. Meanwhile, three-fourths of Congressional Democrats oppose the war, and they’re trying just as adamantly to avoid coming out against him.
But what is going on in Afghanistan? Is it a “war?” Washington would like the American public to think of the bloody chaos over there as a war, because the term is nice and neat.… click here to continue reading.

