Thomas Barnett notes:
Spray one apartment and the bugs move over to the next. Wherever there’s the least resistance or the most opportunity, you find them clustered.
The Anbar awakening ruins al Qaeda’s long-term chances in Iraq, and so the clustering refocuses on Pakistan. With the surge succeeding in Iraq and Bush finally coming around to rapprochement with Iran, our re-direct on Afghanistan/Pakistan seems well underway for the next president.
Joyner notes the piece and says:
Of course, they could always re-direct back if we “surge” in Aghanistan/Pakistan and leave Iraq before it is able to sustain the gains in security.
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Exactly, James.
That concrete is poured, but not dried yet.
And isn’t it amazing? Just a few months ago, the left was spending all it’s time trying to discredit Malaki…and there was much to discredit, though the left never focused on the important stuff… such as he was invariably wrong about timeline pronouncemnets, as Max Boot pointed out yesterday.
But now suddenly because he’s playing the polical animal, hedging his bets, making nice with Obama, (While obviously not really agreeing with him) suddenly the left thinks him a sage for the ages, and he talks about a 16 month timeline. With both Malaki’s half-hearted mouthing of ‘timelines’ and Obama’s politically driven insisance on them, this is less than an impressive list of facts backing the idea of a timeline. Perhaps it’s time, as Boot suggests to leave this to the experts… the commanders…both Iraqi and US, who say a timeline is dangerous to long term peace in the region.
We’re still left with the Democrats desperate to lose this thing, so as to not look like the traitorous fools they are… after so long claimng there’s no winning, they’re still looking for a way to look legitimate while claiming the whole thing wasn’t worth it… as I said yesterday.