The Antiwar Right on Mr. Obama's War

Leon Hadar argues that "the choices facing the U.S. in Afghanistan are unlike the dilemmas the U.S. confronted during the Vietnam War, in the same way that the "loss" of South Vietnam wasn't akin to the destruction of Czechoslovakia by Hitler's Germany" — Afghanistan Is Not Vietnam.

Kelley B. Vlahos explains why "there will be no Afghan security forces strong enough to 'hold and build' even if coalition forces are able to 'clear' the Pashtun strongholds of Taliban in the near future" — Afghan Army MIA.

"Thinking people everywhere see our Afghanistan experience as a crash of 20th-century American empire on the 21st-century rocks of reality," suggests Karen Kwiatkowski in her article on the president's "small window of opportunity to declare victory and take a step towards retroactively earning his Nobel peace prize" — Afghanistan a Success – Time to Come Home!

"In re Afghanistan, why, you might ask, is the world’s hugest, expensivest, most begadgeted military unable to defeat a few thousand angry tribesmen armed with AKs and RPGs?" begins Fred Reed — Surprised by Disaster.