Afghanistan AWOL in This Year's Election

Albert Hunt, BloombergIt’s a useful exercise to juxtapose Bob Woodward’s new book on the war in Afghanistan, “Obama’s Wars,” with the agenda discussed in elections across the country.There is a total disconnect: The Woodward book depicts Afghanistan as a quagmire-to-be with no clear and coherent strategy. There are almost 100,000 young American men and women deployed there at an annual cost of $119 billion -- almost three times the ultimate cost to taxpayers of the entire Troubled Asset Relief Program to rescue the financial system -- and with casualties rising.

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