Aides in the Obama administration must be beside themselves with the political pain that foreign affairs is wreaking on their domestic agenda. His United Nations appearance, the G-20 meeting in Pittsburgh, the public revelation of Iran's secret underground nuclear facility (certainly not a secret to the players involved) [One wonders why now is the right time to go public with it?], and the quandary of Afghanistan have all served to push the domestic agenda away from the public consciousness.
Or is that all part of a grand diversion scheme to take pressure off Congress to enable them to push through health care reform, cap and trade, and card check while Americans are absorbed in foreign policy issues?
TeamObama clearly has its hands full. They have failed to convince Americans that their health care reform is the right way to go and they have to make a strong public case for whichever course of action he decides for Afghanistan. That won't be easy regardless of his decision. I sense that most of the softening up that's happening in the liberal media is preparing the way for a decision not to send the troops the Pentagon is requesting for a counterinsurgency strategy.
Vermont's junior Senator has this to say about the war in Afghanistan:
We do need to have that debate!
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