THE OBAMA LEGACY STRIKES AGAIN – AT 12:20 P.M. ET:  We may have to send more troops to Afghanistan, another tribute to the military planning of Field Marshal Obama and Grand Admiral Kerry.   From Fox: 

President Trump could be asked next week to send more troops to Afghanistan as the 16-year war grinds on in a bloody stalemate.

The U.S. commander in Afghanistan wants 3,000 more troops and Pentagon officials told Congress this week that the war plan recommendations being sent to Trump are aimed at moving “beyond the stalemate” with the ISIS-affiliated Taliban insurgency.

Afghan soldiers are suffering what Pentagon auditors call "shockingly high" battlefield casualties, and prospects are narrowing for a negotiated peace settlement with the Taliban. The insurgents may have failed to capture and hold a major city, but they are controlling or influencing ever more territory.

"The situation is deteriorating," said Stephen Biddle, a George Washington University professor and close Afghan war observer.

This grim picture forms the backdrop for administration deliberations on a way ahead in Afghanistan, where U.S. troops are supporting beleaguered Afghans against the Taliban insurgency and stepping up attacks on an extremist group considered an Islamic State affiliate. The three most recent U.S. deaths in Afghanistan were in combat last month against the IS affiliate, which also was the target of a much-publicized U.S. airstrike April 13 using the "mother of all bombs."

Army Gen. John Nicholson, the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan, has asked the Pentagon for 3,000 more U.S. and allied troops to bolster support for the Afghan army.

COMMENT:  What war was that?  Anyone interested?  I'm not so sure the American people will support sending more troops to a war we've been fighting for 16 years, without much success.  I can't blame it all on Obama.  The Bush administration let things drag on for 7 years, and didn't seem to have much of a plan for victory.  It turned its attention to Iraq and the Middle East.

Obama probably thought the enemy had legitimate grievances.  Despite the ghastly behavior of the Taliban toward women, the American left, and the feminist left, never showed much concern.  To do so would have meant supporting BUSH (!!) and CHENEY (!!!!).  Eventually we learn that there's a pecking order on the left, and women don't rank very high, even in some "feminist" groups. 

Trump has difficult decisions to make on Afghanistan.  He's results-oriented, and I have at least some confidence that he'll ask the right questions.

May 6, 2017