Sheer momentum is pushing America and its allies into expanded objectives. A new cost-benefit analysis is in order.
The Taliban are not the country bumpkins we often attribute them to be, but are capable of a sophistication that rivals our most intelligent military officers. We underestimate them at our peril.
Humpty Dumpty isn’t going to be put back together, and there's little difference between the neocon war-initiators under George W. Bush and President Obama's liberal war-expanders.