Columnist Fred Kaplan, writing in Slate, expressed his mixed feelings toward what we should do in Afghanistan in “Confessions of an Uncertain Columnist.”
“When it comes to this war, I am the one thing that a columnist probably
shouldn’t be–ambivalent. I’ve studied all the pros and cons. There are
valid arguments to justify each side of the issue, and there are still
more valid arguments to slap each side down. And if the basic decision were left up to me, I’m not sure what I would do.”
He then gives those various pros and cons, and slaps them down. It’s a good column, showing the problems with any course we take in Afghanistan. It sums up well how I’ve felt. I’ve been going back and forth for months about whether we should increase or decrease our presence in Afghanistan.
President Obama and his advisers, military and otherwise, have been carefully working out a long-strategy. Tonight, we’ll learn what that strategy is. I may or may not feel comfortable with it, but it’s not my decision to make. Thank goodness.
