Reading Up

by digby

The Nation has devoted its current issue to Afghanistan. There are many interesting, provocative articles, but this sentence, from the editorial stands out:

Obama has called Afghanistan a war of necessity and fed the notion that it is the “good war,” in contrast to the one in Iraq. Afghanistan policy should not be a hostage to the president’s past rhetoric.

I said something similar recently and was excoriated by wingnuts all the way up to the National Review. (Thanks for the traffic!) I’m still not sure why. These same wingnuts all agreed with Bush and Cheney that Afghanistan was just a littlemilitary side dish and not worth thinking about for nearly eight years. Now it’s the Most Important Thing In The World and Obama needs to fall on his knees and obey the Generals or the terrorists are going to kill us all in our beds.

Anyway this edition of The Nation is a compendium of leftish thinking on the subject and worth spending some time with.

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