Still Pushing

Lawrence Korb and Caroline Wadhams had an op-ed in the Boston Globe yesterday. It advanced the same argument they made back in the Fall - we need to focus more on Afghanistan. Their argument is summed up in this quote from the op-ed:

The Bush administration is in this position because it has forgotten the answers to several key questions. Where did the Sept. 11 attacks originate? Where is Al Qaeda's key leadership currently located? Which US military mission is authorized by the United Nations and NATO? In which theater are more than half of the troops supplied by other nations? In which theater are US casualties lower than its partners? Which country's people want the United States to stay and help? Finally, in which theater does the United States have a greater chance of succeeding?

They also point out the stupidity of having six times as many troops in Afghanistan and spending in Afghanistan a small fraction of that which we are spending in Iraq. And they ask the question of why all the Western troops are nor under a single command.