It'd be unfair to blame him for not showing much progress towards victory in a war that has no winning condition. It'd be fair to blame him for not setting some goals for us to achieve so that we can accomplish something positive and get the hell out.
He's shown only marginally more interest in actually catching bin Laden than Bush had (which was zero), which was the only achievable objective we had in Afghanistan from the start, and seems to be swinging wildly from actually believing that we're there to crush the brutal reign of the Pushtun people over the helpless Pushtun people and install a noble democracy ruled by the Pushtun people, and trying to install a British-style divide-and-conquer colonial occupation government using the Tajiks that'll inevitably result in genocide should we ever stop dumping money and soldiers into the country.
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Date: 5/4/10 21:55 (UTC)He's shown only marginally more interest in actually catching bin Laden than Bush had (which was zero), which was the only achievable objective we had in Afghanistan from the start, and seems to be swinging wildly from actually believing that we're there to crush the brutal reign of the Pushtun people over the helpless Pushtun people and install a noble democracy ruled by the Pushtun people, and trying to install a British-style divide-and-conquer colonial occupation government using the Tajiks that'll inevitably result in genocide should we ever stop dumping money and soldiers into the country.