Dems to Obama on Afghanistan: Not So Fast With More Troops
The Democratic leadership is questioning President Obama's ramp-up of the war in Afghanistan:
"I don't think there is a great deal of support for sending more troops to Afghanistan in the country or in Congress," Ms. Pelosi told reporters, emphasizing that she was eager to see a report due from the White House in two weeks on benchmarks to measure the success of the administration's six-month-old strategy.
That sort of push-back, however belated and tentative, is promising, especially given that the White House has manifestly failed to spell out what our goals there are.