President Obama's new Afghan policy that he delivered Tuesday night to
the nation is an extremely ambitious one, and given how every foreign
military intervention in Afghanistan has never quite succeeded, Mr.
Obama's latest plan may yet come back to haunt his presidency - and
could affect his hopes for re-election.
In the 35-minute televised address Mr. Obama called for the deployment
of 30,000 additional U.S. troops in Afghanistan in an effort to turn
the tide of the war; a war, one may add, that is not going well for the
United States and its allies, as the Taliban is making a comeback in a
major way.