Ted Koppel on the war in Afghanistan

Neal Conan talked to Ted Koppel yesterday about the war in Afghanistan in advance of President Obama's address to the nation tonight. Koppel's thoughts on Obama being in an impossible situation--trapped between the domestic political reality and the multi-generational danger of a destabilized Pakistan--are worth a listen (or a read, the transcript is available at the same link).

JUAN COLE, meanwhile, writes about the lack of a functioning Karzai government in Afghanistan.