The Afghan Plan

I thought the Cadet-oriented speech given by the Big O (the man is President; hence the respect) was pretty good, given the topic. I think a nice little surge for 18 month is a good idea. If nothing else, Afghans need to know that we are back to our usual attention span and not John-McCain's 100 years.

This is not Vietnam. Vietnam had a stable government-in-waiting; it just happened to be where Jane Fonda stayed on vacation.

Jane Who? you might ask, if you never donned a leotard or ankle warmers.

It is sad that so many members of the Peace, Love and Simple Flower Arrangements Generation would forget its beloved aid and comfort-woman, Hanoi Jane. No wonder Bush was elected over her strong right (or maybe left, if that's possible) arm, John Kerry.

Maybe some of you just missed that mentally altered generation. I know a few who were just at the tail end of the "Greek is Good" generation (through no fault of their own) and skipped straight to the actual Hustle and Disco. During a single Bee Gee's song one night, the Soviets snuck hundreds of tanks into Afghanistan, many of which we paid Holy Freedom Fighters to disable if not fix.

Anyway, with our plan, we have 18 long months to fix everything else wrong with Afghanistan, the tanks long gone to China as scrap.

We can do it. I watched, from across the street, my local McDonald's go up in 18 days. And it rained twice.