Video: Coakley says no more terrorists in Afghanistan

Uh, then why is Obama sending 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan?

BBC News - Afghans more optimistic for future, survey shows

Nice to see this on the BBC.

Obama adopts Bush's Afghanistan policies

This is what Obama has been dithering over?

Eight U.S. troops killed in Afghanistan

Reuters reports.

Meanwhile, Obama is out golfing all the time.

Voting Present Is Not an Option for Obama

Commander Ditherer.

Obama's Afghan diplomacy failure

So much for Obama's smart diplomacy.

Afghanistan - White House decision should not wait

So says Gates.

"ABOARD A MILITARY AIRCRAFT – President Barack Obama should not wait for a clear resolution to the post-election complexities in Afghanistan before making his decision on the administration’s war strategy, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said on Monday.

“We’re not just going to sit on our hands waiting for the outcome of this election,” Gates said."

Which is the exact opposite of what Obama is saying.

43 U.S. Troops Have Died in Afghanistan Since troop request

and Obama goes on Letterman.

Obama to move goal posts in Afghanistan

says the LA Times.

"Here's the entire Obama transcript. But notice anything missing here? No more mention of the original 9/11 bad guys, the Taliban. No mention either of defeating them. And no more mention of making it safe for democracy to flourish in Afghanistan.

Through such overlooked omissions are the political goals and measures of American victory in Afghanistan being subtly shifted without any notice or announcement by the Obama administration."

Obama's Afghan general has put his Commander-in-Chief in a box. Obama and the Democrats claim that things have changed in Afghanistan since the last "review". But McCrystal has been there the whole time and his assessment is up to date. He says he needs 40,000 more troops or we lose the war. If Obama turns him down he can say the general was wrong but no one will believe that. As a result, Obama will lose the war and any chance of reelection.

US accepts Hamid Karzai as Afghan leader

One less excuse for Obama not to send more troops to Afghanistan.

"The acceptance was conveyed by Hillary Clinton, the Secretary of State, in a meeting with her Afghan counterpart hours before Mr Obama received a formal request from General Stanley McChrystal, the commander of Nato forces in Afghanistan, for up to 40,000 more troops. "

So, the Afghan elections never were one of Obama's excuses.

McChrystal Says He's Talked With Obama Once

Since Taking Afghanistan Command

Obama has called Afghanistan the central war on terror, that it was the good war and a war of necessity. Yet, the Commander-in-Chief has only talked to his top general in Afghanistan once? Obama has no time to talk to his general but he has time to talk to Letterman and Olympic officials.

McChrystal to hold firm on request for troops

How long will he wait on Obama before resigning?

This caught my eye.

"McChrystal also stated that he had only spoken to Obama once in 70 days since taking over as commander in the eight-year-old war."

This despite the fact that Obama said Afghanistan is the central war on terror. Now whose taken his eye off the ball?

Obama can't downsize to success in Afghanistan

Says Max Boot.

Frank Rich—Afghan War Hypocrite

What did you expect? He's writing in the New York Times.

Obama to throw Afghanistan under the crowded bus?

Looking more and more like it.

Lefty blogger admits support for Afghanistan was political

Ace has the details.

"Again we see a leftist projecting his pathological darkness on to others. They accused Bush of fighting wars for this very reason. And now, when it's safe to say so (they think), they concede: We supported a war for the reason we accused Bush of doing so for 8 years."

Is It Amateur Hour in the White House?

As the saying goes, "if you have to ask". This coming from the magazine that called Obama, God, is rich.

Unintentionally, Newsweek shows just how amateur and weak Obama really is.

"Buzz about the leak of McChrystal's report focuses on two questions. Who slipped the document to the great Bob Woodward of the Washington Post? That's fun, but not serious. And who's responsible for allowing President Obama to get into this mess? That is serious."

"Allowing" Obama? He's supposed to be the President of the United States! You know, LEADER of the free world and all that. Some leader.

Let's remember what Obama said just a few months ago.

"In his campaign, Obama opposed the invasion of Iraq but safeguarded his national-security credentials by supporting the war in Afghanistan. A war, he said, America had to win—but to which, he charged, the Bush administration had failed to devote the necessary resources. In office, Obama ordered up a new Afghanistan strategy, and announced this on March 27 as the product of what he called "a careful policy review." Shorn of rhetoric, the new strategy actually accepted all the Bush administration's goals in Afghanistan—defeating the insurgents; preventing Al Qaeda from reestablishing a sanctuary there; working to set up a democratic and effective government; training Afghan forces to take over from U.S. troops; coaxing the international community to give more help."

And

"Suddenly, the strategy Obama announced in March is being ditched. Back then, Obama said that Afghanistan had not received (from the Bush administration) "the strategic attention, direction and resources it urgently needs." Specifically, he charged, the resources U.S. commanders needed "have been denied." "Now, that will change," he said. As late as last month, Obama was declaring the struggle in Afghanistan "a war of necessity" where victory was "fundamental to the defense of our people."

Now that Obama is being asked to put his money where his mouth is, he's backtracking. What did you expect from a rookie politician whose only experience was community organizing?

While Obama, the amateur, dithers, American soldiers are dying.

Is Afghan surge Obama's Cuba moment?

"He cannot stay undecided for long. "

McChrystal to resign if not given resources for Afghanistan

Good for him.

Obama goes wobbly on Afghanistan

No surprise there.