The Speech

Obama's speech and the decision itself to send 30K troops to Afghanistan was just one long tired sigh of resigned nothingness. It's obvious that Republicans don't really care what happens in or to Afghanistan et al as long as they can use whatever happens to politically kill Obama. And Obama and the Democrats know they are helpless to do anything but, as usual, succumb to the whims of the minority party for no real reason other than they are scared to act like the party in power. So we'll just mosey along this spiral for another few years even though nobody really gives a shit about it and would prefer the whole thing just be over and done with, our only hope being either one day abject lethargy finally takes over to the point we can admit it, or someone somewhere else on the globe waves something shiny for us to jump at. And it turns out the Afghans themselves feel the same way.