Losing Afghanistan

Bush's disastrous decision to invade Iraq will undoubtedly go down as one of the worst foreign policy blunders in American history -- 2782 American troops killed there so far (including 69 dead this month already and ten troops killed today), tens of thousands of troops injured, 600,000 Iraqi civilians killed, hundreds of billions of dollars wasted.

Sure, there's plenty to be mad about, but I think this side effect of the Iraq Debacle pisses me off the most:

The U.S.-led coalition in Afghanistan failed to follow through as it should have after ousting the Taliban government in 2001, setting the stage for this year's deadly resurgence, the NATO commander in the country said Tuesday.

The mistake consisted of adopting "a peacetime approach" too early, British Gen. David Richards told Pentagon reporters. He said the international community has six months to correct the problem before losing Afghan support, reiterating a warning he issued last week.

"The Taliban were defeated. ... And it looked all pretty hunky-dory," Richard said of the environment at the end of 2001. "We thought it was all done ... and didn't treat it as aggressively as ... with the benefit of hindsight, we should have done." ***

Just think how mad you'd be if you had lost a family member in Afghanistan, and then had to watch in horror as Bush let the Taliban rise again in that country just so he could attack and occupy a nation that was no threat to us. Bush's incompetence with regard to the Iraq War and the War on Terror is so profound that it pretty much rises to the level of treason.