Afghanistan's going great, why do you ask?

Remember that speech Obama gave yesterday where he mentioned the need to increase our effort in Afghanistan because we really dropped the ball their in our fiasco in Iraq? He wasn't bullshitting.

US troops pull out of Afghan base after attack

U.S. and Afghan troops have abandoned a remote outpost in eastern Afghanistan where militants killed nine American soldiers this week, officials said Wednesday.

Compounding the military setback, insurgents quickly seized the village of Wanat in Nuristan province after driving out the handful of police left behind to defend government offices, Afghan officials said.
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Sunday's attack by some 200 militants armed with machine guns, rocket-propelled grenades and mortars was the deadliest for the U.S. military in Afghanistan in three years. Rebels fought their way into the newly established base, wounding another 15 Americans and suffering heavy casualties of their own, before the defenders and warplanes could drive them back.

The assault underlined how Islamic militants appear to be gaining strength nearly eight years after the ouster of the Taliban, and the difficulties facing foreign and Afghan forces trying to defeat them.

McCain was saying yesterday how we needed another 'surge' in Afghanistan. He then immediately realized the infeasibility of that and came out with a new plan. His plan for that? Getting other countries to willingly join our Iraq fiasco. Yeah, not such a solid plan there John-boy. Everyone in NATO is just dying to put brigades of troops into Iraq so that you can go tidy up the first war you and your collection of dingus touchers failed to win.

Bush even sees what's up. Which either means he accidentally got ahead of the curve, is so far off the curve that he's on it, he accidentally guessed right, he accidentally said Afghanistan when he meant to say something like "I want a hot dog", or things are as unbelievably bad there as is normally required to get Bush to notice and we're the ones who are behind the curve. We're in uncharted territory here.