The never-ending war

Tonight, President Obama is supposed to tell us how many troops may be withdrawn from Afghanistan and when. I have very little hope that it will be significant enough and that our leader has any clue as to how to extricate the country from this quagmire. As I have said over and over, we don't have the money anymore to fight far-away wars, and to do so, we must borrow it from the Chinese.

What kind of insanity is that? At the very least we should make the rich pay for it (roll back Bush tax-cuts) and perhaps this might trigger some positive reactions. We should let the Russians, the Indians and the Chinese worry about Karzai, the Taliban and the Pakistani nukes. I hope our president has been promised a huge contribution by the military-industrial complex towards his reelection; he'll need every penny of it. So, instead of watching his speech and get all upset, I'll attend the first outdoors Deer Valley concert of the season!