What To Do Now?

I first clicked on this because I thought it said Hawks and a Whack Job. Morbid I know, but to my disappointment I thought I would at least read through it.

I think where I'm going to differ with Matthew is that I just don't think we can up and leave Afghanistan. Now before you read that as a call for more war, it's not. I think there has to be some sort of solution to ensuring al Qaeda and the Taliban do not get another free bed & breakfast out of the deal.

Also, I want to say that listening to people who got us into the mess in Iraq is not an option. They can print all the op-eds they want cheering on endless war and surging Afghanistan, but just remember those people have been wrong on every issue of the last decade. Maybe my biggest hang up with Afghanistan is this is something that should have been taken care of 5 years ago. It is a total mismanagement by the Bush administration-- a presidency that saw it perfectly acceptable to ignore the place that had actual ties to 9/11. So in some respects I totally understand leaving now and letting the pieces fall where they may.

Best case scenario is that Afghanistan does not turn into another safe-haven. Outside of that, there isn't much else we can do there.