Who’s “fighting the last war?”

Contributed by: filbert Tuesday, July 15 2008 @ 03:31 PM CST

Iraq is quickly becoming the last war . . . i.e. a war that objective, on-site observers like Michael Yon[*1] increasingly believe we have won.

Afghanistan, on the other hand, due in large part because of Pakistan’s frail political system, begins to slip back.

So, let’s see . . . today, Obama gives a speech about Iraq[*2] (Iraq mentioned 53 times; Afghanistan; 15)  McCain, about Afghanistan[*3] (Iraq mentioned 21 times, Afghanistan 33).

Quiz:  Which one said this?

What’s missing in our debate about Iraq – what has been missing since before the war began – is a discussion of the strategic consequences of Iraq and its dominance of our foreign policy.

Actually, there has been a thorough and continuing discussion in many circles about the strategic consequences of Iraq.  Obama and his leftist fellows are the ones who have been absent from this discussion, holding to an inflexible position of immediate withdrawal regardless of the strategic consequences of that action.