Obama's Afghan Struggle

By FOUAD AJAMI - WSJ.com

The president can't build on the Iraq victory because he never embraced it.

We face today the oddest and most unexpected of spectacles: On its sixth anniversary, the Iraq war has been vindicated, while the war in Afghanistan looks like a hopeless undertaking in an impossible land.

This is not what the opponents of the Iraq war had foreseen. After all, Afghanistan was the good war of necessity whereas Iraq was the war of "choice" in the wrong place. READ ON.