David Broder notes the President’s dithering on Afghanistan:

The more President Obama examines our options in Afghanistan, the less he likes the choices he sees. But, as the old saying goes, to govern is to choose — and he has stretched the internal debate to the breaking point…Obama needs to remember what Clark Clifford, one of Harry Truman’s closest advisers, said: that the president “believed that even a wrong decision was better than no decision at all.”…In all this dithering, it’s easy to forget a few fundamentals…

I don’t see how Obama can refuse to back up the commander he picked and the strategy he is recommending. It may not work if the country truly is ungovernable. But I think we have to gamble that security will bring political progress — as it has done in Iraq.

Broder seems to disapprove of Obama, but then again he didn’t care for Hillary Clinton all that much. As for Broder’s comment on Harry Truman’s adviser Clark Clifford, it’s not all that relevant. After all, Obama is no Truman.

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