"Nursing homes, nursery schools or nursing Afghanistan — these are the trade-offs we’ll have to make in this decade, unless we have a real growth spurt. Mitt Romney gave a big foreign policy speech last week, waxing eloquent about how he would be more assertive of U.S. interests abroad than President Obama and ensure that this is an 'American century.' Really? I like American centuries. But to paraphrase an old saying: a foreign policy vision without a real plan to pay for it — and manage all the trade-offs back home — is just a hallucination."
As much as I hate to say it, this time Friedman has it mostly right: The US cannot afford to continue paying in blood and money for its boondoggle in Afghanistan. However, Friedman doesn't have the courage to acknowledge that it was Obama's decision to escalate this senseless war.
It is despicable how Obama and Romney avoid discussion of this fiasco as American soldiers continue to lay down their lives for no reason whatsoever. It is far easier for Barack and Mitt to sling mud. Shame on both of them.
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