Recommended: Afghanistan could decide this presidency

Amidst all the instant punditry about Afghanistan on the cable channels and in the print media, one of the few voices that seems to me to make sense is Robert Shrum's article Afghanistan could decide this presidency. As I noted many months ago, American voters have very short memories, and by now Afghanistan is no longer Bush's war but Obama's war. So what strategy he picks matters a great deal to his presidency and to the fortunes of the Democratic Party, and as Schrum points out, he doesn't have any good options, only bad options and worse options.