Failure

WASHINGTON (AP) - The government has concluded that al-Qaida has rebuilt its operating capability to a level not seen since the summer of 2001, The Associated Press has learned.

Forget Iraq for a moment. Didn't we all want a change in Afghanistan? Wasn't that the whole point of the invasion?

I wonder what the right wingers think about completely botching the war in Afghanistan? Do you agree, now, with the liberals that thought it was a bad idea to divert the military to Iraq?

I wonder who the right wingers blame for the colossal failure? Wait - I know the answer to that one. Somehow it's the fault of the liberals... even though pretty much the entire nation, regardless of political stripe, were very supportive of the Afghanistan campaign.

I wonder - right wingers - what is your consequence for failure? What should be done with the "Commander In Chief" who has failed? What about the political movement that has failed?

What about the reputation of the United States?

What about the American soldiers that have died, and for what? What about Pat Tillman?

What about you?

/update

From the WaPo

Early on the morning of Nov. 13, 2006, members of the bipartisan Iraq Study Group gathered around a dark wooden conference table in the windowless Roosevelt Room of the White House.

For more than an hour, they listened to President Bush give what one panel member called a "Churchillian" vision of "victory" in Iraq and defend the country's prime minister, Nouri al-Maliki. "A constitutional order is emerging," he said.

Later that morning, around the same conference table, CIA Director Michael V. Hayden painted a starkly different picture for members of the study group. Hayden said "the inability of the government to govern seems irreversible," adding that he could not "point to any milestone or checkpoint where we can turn this thing around," according to written records of his briefing and the recollections of six participants.

"The government is unable to govern," Hayden concluded. "We have spent a lot of energy and treasure creating a government that is balanced, and it cannot function."

Later in the interview, he qualified the statement somewhat: "A government that can govern, sustain and defend itself is not achievable," he said, "in the short term."

They KNEW 6 months ago the situation was fucked. Is anybody surprised that now they Iraqi "government" has missed all benchmarks?

What the fuck?