Why Afghanistan is looking more and more like Iraq

It’s deppressing news. If we had a competent commander and chief we’d still be in Afghanistan today with the number of troops we now have in Iraq. It seems that Bush’s inept invasion has, at least in hindsight, cost us three things: Aghanistan (where every day the insurgency increasingly resembles that of Iraq’s), our international credibility, and our ability to contain Iran (our overstretched military has rendered any “threat” to Iran an obvious bluff).

I think a serious case can be made that Bush’s rediculously incompetent foreign policy has geopolitically helped Tehran far more than it has ever helped Washington.

Note: To anyone who reads the link, it’s interesting to see that the Taliban insurgents attacked the western Farah province, on the border of Iran (where ostensibly, coalition forces have a good grip on things) rather than in the east, where the Taliban usually crosses the Pakistani border from its safe haven in Waziristan (the lawless “tribal” region where bin-Laden is currently suspected to be).