Well-worn talking points from the increasingly irrelevant Weekly Standard. Even as Obama redeploys tens of thousands of troops to Afghanistan and all but promises to keep them there as long as it takes, Bill Kristol's writers find grounds on which to wail for more. For all the time they spent on the civilian team looking into this issue, they don't support their conclusions well in this story.

Speculative opinion about what resources General McChrystal might ask for in his upcoming meeting about Afghanistan with the Secretary of Defense. I was not impressed with the quality of the argument, which focuses on trivial details rather than look at the big picture of how to most effectively bring about true democracy in Afghanistan.

The authors do identify a lack of clear mission on the part of the Obama administration. However, in light of the Christian Science Monitor opinion piece linked below, I feel the authors have failed to think through the non-military solutions in Afghanistan.