So now that Iraq can no longer be said to distract us from Afghanistan, where our troops are twice as numerous as in Iraq, this anti-war cadre must pivot to oppose the Afghanistan campaign. But what, oh what, can be the greater threat that Afghanistan distracts us from confronting?
Well:
The Afghanistan conflict has now grown disproportionally large in the global portfolio of U.S. national security concerns, outweighing and tilting attention and resources away from other troubles in the Middle East, from Iran, from North Korea, from the global consequences of an ascending and more powerful China.
Please! You're killing me! You want me to believe you want us to confront North Korea? Iran? China?
This from a member of the Afghanistan Study Group, which takes its name from the Iraq Study Group that tried but failed to get us to lose in Iraq. Say what you want about them, but they do have a sense of whimsy.
