Obama at West Point - HUMAN EVENTS

Obama at West Point - HUMAN EVENTS: "Tomorrow night, President Obama will tell the world how he will -- in his own words -- “finish the job” in Afghanistan. And he will propose to do this, by whatever means, in less than eight or nine years which is the period his spokesman, Robert Gibbs, declared the limit of our commitment.

Obama will get it entirely wrong. We know this now, a day before the speech, because the president has resolutely committed himself to the wrong theory, asking the wrong questions in search of his new strategy. Three points suffice.

It’s not possible to “finish the job” in Afghanistan any more than it was possible to do in Iraq. There, we were fighting the enemy’s proxies -- al Queda, Hizballah and the rest -- not the principal enemy, the nations that sponsor Islamic terrorism against civilization. In Afghanistan, this is less so because there the Taliban are both an enemy unto themselves, capable of sponsoring the terrorism that has already taken American lives on 9-11, and a proxy for those, such as Iran, which enable them to threaten national governments."