Ruh-Roh. Yon Unhappy

Frankly, one expected this to happen.

Michael Yon's comments to The Atlantic's D B Grady:

“Even if the President commits more forces [next year], they will not be effective until 2012. By that time, more allies likely will have peeled off, requiring us to commit even more forces to cover down. We lost crucial time in building the Afghan National Police and Afghan National Army and so forth, and today we are paying the price. This is not to mention that the Afghan government is sorry at best and criminal at worst.

He concludes, “The trajectory of this war leaves a sick feeling in my stomach. It’s as if I’ve watched a space shuttle liftoff while sitting at launch control, with full knowledge that it will abort to the Indian Ocean. We are trying to reach orbit with insufficient fuel.”

That "sick feeling" happens because this is the recipe which brought you the VietNam war. Politicization of military decisions almost never results in victory (see, e.g., the political-mandated Israeli blockade mess.)

HT: Examiner