Joe Klein highlights this bit from Ahmed Rashid's article on Afghanistan:
US officials told me in April 2008 that President Bush had been warned by his military commanders that Afghanistan was going from bad to worse. More troops and money were needed; reconstruction was at a standstill; pressure had to be put on Pakistan; the elections in April 2009 should be indefinitely postponed. Bush ignored all the advice except for asking the Afghans to postpone the elections until August.
He left everything else to his successor to sort out.
Like everything else: torture, Iraq, the debt, the recession, healthcare. What's staggering to me right now is how some people are still incapable of giving the new guy a break.
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