I find it difficult to view Iraq and Afghanistan in isolation. Gains in Iraq appear to have been offset by a deterioration in Afghanistan. Both have a common context vis-a-vis the WOT and are logically connected. You would be hard pressed to dispute the genesis of either. So why are they treated as separate? I think it impossible to disassociate them from each other. They are merely two battlefields in the same war and are thus inseparable.

There is all this news talk about the media being biased. I suppose there is some basis for it. After all McCain is getting far less media attention than Obama.

I don't think that's it though. I think that just as the American people have repeatedly said they think the country is on the wrong track the world is expressing the same view and they want something different.