Slow Motion Dunkirk

Probably the best characterization of the President's speech on Afghanistan has come from Ed Morrissey.

Obama has decided to fight the war with the proper resourcing, or close to it. But what exactly is the purpose of the escalation? There was no sense of purpose in the speech, no grand sense of mission, save one: getting out...The only sense of real mission I get from this speech is that we’re going to send 30,000 more troops now so we can start evacuating all of them in the summer of 2011. It sounds like a slow-motion Dunkirk...

Having quoted that, I still agree with the President's concepts, if only to get out of the place before all American will is sapped by the endless campaign.

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