One more try in Afghanistan

I find myself deeply conflicted about the war in Afghanistan and Obama's plans for ending it with a better outcome than simply bringing the troops home today. Underneath all of the talk about Afghanistan, my sense is that we're staying there mainly in order to maintain pressure on the forces that would de-stabilize Pakistan. And that is, after all, the only real danger (and even then, certainly not an "existential" one): the possibility of terrorists getting there hands on one or more of Pakistan's nukes.

We can't stay there indefinitely... we can no longer afford such an expedition. Perhaps the best we can do is stay for now, double down, and re-assess in a year and a half.

Andrew Sullivan wrote a thoughtful post on the President's strategy, which ultimately can be summed up as "one more try."