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The dirty secret is the "More troops for Afghanistan" spin is pure Political Propaganda. It is designed to do nothing more then give the Democrats an out. "Oh we aren't weak on National Defense, we want to fight the "Right" war" in Afganistan."

Agreed, thyye have to show that they are tough on terrorism. Spin with some truth to it. NATO is having a hard time meeting its troop commitments. "In addition to capping troop levels, Clinton said, she wants to increase troops in Afghanistan and tie U.S. aid to Iraq to certain benchmarks."

This is precisely why the Reps need to call them on it. The Dems need to demonstrate why they are hawks in Afghanistan and cut and runners from Iraq, where we have far more important strategic national interests involved.

Unfortunately I do not see anyone with any talent for political PR anywhere in the current Republican Leadership willing to wage this fight. Seems all we have now days is “Me Too Democrat Lite” in the Republican party. I guess we can simply hope that once the 2008 campaign kicks into high gear we have a strong leader who can pull the party with him.

I suspect we will end up with the worse of both worlds, a Republican President and a Democrat Congress so our current state of strategic polarization will just drag on and on and on and on.