Fascinating Pre-Obama Speech Reading

I started a post that would compare Bush and Iraq to Obama and Afghanistan. I slogged away at it for a while and then discovered that it had been done, and done far better than I would have by Glenn Greenwald at Salon.com. Do read about surges, benchmarks, timetables, accepted demands of the country's government and all the other trappings of our serial interventions in quagmires.

Check back in a year or so for the I told you so's.