So it is that we invaded Iraq on fuzzy pretexts with no idea of what we'd do after we "won," without even a way of determining we'd accomplished our mission other than hanging a sign behind our commander in chief that said we had. 

We're about to escalate yet another enigmatic war with no particular purpose in mind.  Mr. Obama says Afghanistan is now the "central front on terror."  The central front has moved from Afghanistan to Iraq to Iran to Syria to North Korea to Pakistan and back to Afghanistan again.  That's a boatload of central fronts for a war that doesn't have any front lines.  I can't wait to hear who Obama says the latest incarnation of Hitler is. 

Obama says he wants to make sure Afghanistan "cannot be used as a base to launch attacks against the United States."  Nobody can actually launch an attack on much of anything from the mountains of Afghanistan.  You can plan an attack from there, but you can plan an attack on the United States from a picnic blanket spread out in front of the Lincoln Memorial.  And oh yeah, the Taliban, whether we decide to kill them or not, had nothing to do with 9/11, and have no interest in being party to a second one, and wouldn't be fighting us if we hadn't pitched a tent city in their front yard.  

I hope young Mr. Obama thinks good and hard before he decides to send more G.I.s to risk life and limb in a third world wasteland for no coherent reason.  I grew tired of watching the last commander-in-chief treat our troops like hockey pucks.