With the open secret that President Obama will escalate in Afghanistan with anywhere between 25,000 and 34,000 additional troops, foes of the policy are zeroing in on the cost of the operation, adding that to their normal arguments against the war. Nancy Pelosi articulated this on a conference call yesterday, saying that, in a time [...]

The big story over in Afghanistan is that US special forces have begun to fund Afghan militia in a similar fashion to the Anbar Awakening, offering local resistance to the Taliban. The last time this country funded a local fighting force in Afghanistan they created the structure for Osama bin Laden to flourish, incidentally. In [...]