nobody seems to have glommed onto the last graph in their sucky
lead editorial:
"Yet Mr. Obama's account of his strategic vision remains eccentric. He insists that Afghanistan is "the central front" for the United States, along with the border areas of Pakistan. But there are no known al-Qaedabases in Afghanistan, and any additional U.S. forces sent there wouldnot be able to operate in the Pakistani territories where Osama bin Laden is headquartered. While the United States has an interest in preventing the resurgence of the Afghan Taliban,the country's strategic importance pales beside that of Iraq, whichlies at the geopolitical center of the Middle East and contains some ofthe world's largest oil reserves. If Mr. Obama's antiwar stance hasblinded him to those realities, that could prove far more debilitatingto him as president than any particular timetable."
War on terror not as important as oil, the operating premise all along, but
not often stated so baldly.