Drive-By war in Afghanistan

* krugman slams lieberman. jane is ecstatic.

* the wsjoped weighs in about lamont and the angry-bloggy-left. brilliant:

"Days of Rage: Two events last Friday speak volumes about the direction of modern liberal politics, and it's not an encouraging trend, especially if you're a Democrat who wants to take back the White House."

shorter wsj: dont get angry. you wont like you when you're angry.

* driftglass on afghanistan:

"Consider that a genuine Afghan war hero of Soviet Occupation vintage now stands at the head of the Taliban Army. A man charismatic and powerful enough that George Bush actually offered him Karzai’s job -- the presidency of Iraq -- and who turned it down.

A man who now commands large formations (“between 300 and 400 heavily armed Taliban fighters”) in substantial battles, and wins them.

These are not the “final throes” of a beaten enemy in retreat.

This is, instead, the direct consequence of a Commander-in-Chief who never took his Drive-By war in Afghanistan or the men and women who he sent to die there seriously as anything other than the opening act for PNACs Real War -- the one they had been plotting to launch for a decade.

Who never saw the grief and rage and sincere desire of the American people to find and punish those that attacked us as anything other than emotions he could callously hijack, exploit and ride into Baghdad.

But all the Dauphin’s Horses and all of his Men are no match for Reality, and the moderate Republican and independent electorate are already skewing hard in the direction of horrified buyer’s remorse at having been stupid enough to re-elect these clowns and criminals.

So consider the political judgment that is already being rendered on this Administration, and then add in a failed state in Afghanistan. Add in as the God Damned Fucktard Cherry On Top of this disaster of a Presidency the fact that the one "good" war we thought we had already won, buttoned up, and could leave behind is now erupting as yet another Administration Levee Breach.

Because if Dubya manages to leave office with Afghanistan in chaos and the Taliban on the march, history will not have to wait a respectful few years to pronounce its verdict:

"George W. Bush -- The first United State President to quite literally fuck up Every. Single. Thing. He. Ever. Touched."