Military Situation In Afghanistan Is Getting Worse

TROOP ADDRESS - Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai addresses soldiers and family members assigned to the 101st Airborne Division on Fort Campbell, Ky., May 14, 2010. Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates; Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and Army Gen. Stanley McCrystal, commander, International Security Assistance Force, accompanied Karzai during his visit. DoD photo by U.S. Navy Petty Officer 1st Class Chad J. McNeeley

How Are Things Going In Afghanistan? A Pentagon Report Says: Not Well -- Slate

Hamid Karzai has gone back to Afghanistan, and so the denizens of the Pentagon's E Ring and Foggy Bottom's seventh floor can drop their strained smiles and resume biting away at their fingernails.

Things in that unhappy country are going badly—much worse, of course, than Team Obama had to pretend this week but quite a bit worse than even a sensible skeptic might think. And unless Karzai takes to heart the lectures he heard (someone must have given him a stern talking-to amid all the bonhomie), things are only going to get worse still.

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My Comment: Bottom line .... the surge is not working. What is worse is that it appears that most Afghans now want us out .... a prospect that was not the case a few years ago.

Can this situation be changed around .... regrettably .... I have to so no. Afghan culture and tradition will not change because of a hundred thousand U.S. troops and hundreds of billions of dollars .... they are what they are and we will have to accept the reality that they will not change because of our wishes and/or strategic objectives.

The full Pentagon report is here.