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Afghanistan should have been our priority in 2001 and Bush took us off to Iraq on a boondoggle. What do we do about Afghanistan? Do we simply turn our backs, pack up and go, leaving the country to Al Qaeda? Or should we make a real effort to win? The latter may be impossible. Momentum is gone and Afghanistan has settled into its tribal ways, opium production, and medieval mindset once again. Women are still stifled and modernity for that country may be out of the question.
In any war there are instances where innocents get killed, where soldiers are killed by friendly fire, and atrocities by the invaders take place. I worry that Obama has tied himself to yet another Viet Nam. Whatever, it is a difficult question and if the world shrugs its shoulders at innocents being killed and instead become wrapped up in the death of a celebrity, it is to be expected. After all, Afghanistan is a very uncomfortable situation with no easy answers; whereas, it is very easy to grieve over or to point the finger at Michael Jackson.
