However we take time out from our habitual defense of Bush the Younger to note Zero-Hedge's frightening, dismaying, depressing report on Afghanistan.
Nut graph, as the J-school suckers say, is that Afghanistan is a mess despite a generation of fighting and nearly $100 billion in spending.
Back in the day we thought George W. Bush made plenty of mistakes, the steel tariff, Medicare Part D, campaign finance deform, but Afghanistan was the worst mistake of all.
Even back in 2002 we wondered why we were investing all this time and money in the place.
Whose bright idea was it to stay behind in that crap hole and build a nation? The internationalists talked W into it, we suppose.
If the internationalists talked Bush into Afghan nation building, did the neocons talk him into liberating Iraq?
Was the man a clump of maliable Play-Do?
Exit question, is it time for Will to rethink his like for W?
My veiw is as long as we are in Afghanistan the terrorist groups will be drawn there to fight instead of planning attacks on US soil
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