The Afghan Announcement

The major details known well in advance including the addition of 30,000 troops, President's Obama's Afghanistan speech was neo-realistic. It's an inherited conundrum with the path of lesser evil being taken with the decision to deploy (to simply abandon the country could create catastrophic instability).

Since the speech I've been struck by how many"experts", bloggers included, have reacted to the speech with a high degree of skepticism. There were plenty of critics that were once high on board with not only the original decision to invade Afghanistan, but also Iraq. Eh - go figure?