Look at the results of the new Washington Post/ABC News poll on support for the war. Not the war on Terror, not the War in Iraq. The War in Afghanistan. For the first time a majority of Americans, 51% to 47% now feel that war in Afghanistan is not worth fighting. Oh, and by the way, the Pentagon announced 6 more US troops had been killed in Afghanistan yesterday. Six Afghan election officials were also murdered yesterday, in what many are already proclaiming a flawed election because of the limited number of people voting in the Southern provinces controlled by the Taliban, and because of reports of vote fraud. Meanwhile, the word is that the US Commander will ask for more troops to be sent over there, what we used to call back in the days of LBJ, an escalation.

The new poll comes amid widespread speculation that Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal, the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan, will request more troops for his stepped-up effort to remove the Taliban from Afghan towns and villages. That position gets the backing of 24 percent of those polled, while nearly twice as many, 45 percent, want to decrease the number of military forces there.

This is not change I can believe in, frankly. I think we have caught the Russian disease (which used to be known as the British disease) in Afghanistan. But what do I know? I only read history books, analyse the outcomes of previous wars by foreigners there, and draw the conclusion that this is all going to end badly for the US. I guess that makes me a Defeatocrat or a Traitor or someone who doesn’t support the troops. Or maybe it makes me a realist. Take your pick.

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