This week marked Barack Obama’s first month as president — and his first major action as commander-in-chief. He approved seventeen thousand more troops for Afghanistan. The security situation is getting worse. The Taliban has regrouped with support from al-Qaida, which operates from safe refuge along the border with Pakistan.

I, ah… thought we were leaving Iraq/Afghanistan? Guess we’ll go out with a ‘bang’. Among those 17,000, I have quite a few friends going overseas.  Presindent Obama goes on to say:

“I think Afghanistan is still winnable, in the sense of our ability to ensure that it is not a launching pad for attacks against North America. I think it’s still possible for us to stamp out al-Qaida, to make sure that extremism is not expanding but rather is contracting. I think all those goals are still possible, but I think that as a consequence to the war on Iraq, we took our eye off the ball. We have not been as focused as we need to be on all the various steps that are needed in order to deal with Afghanistan.”

About time we go after, excuse me, the real bastards. I just hope we go in there and give our 100%. Get in and get OUT!

It came the same day as the United Nations reported that more than two thousand civilians were killed in Afghanistan last year. That was the most since the American-led invasion in two thousand one that ousted the Taliban government. The number was up forty percent from two thousand seven.

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