Kissinger: We can't win in Afghanistan alone

[boutons_deux]

Any positive results will be temporary, evaporating when the US leaves, if the US ever leaves.

Iraq and Afghanistan aren't going to transform into open, stable, self-sustaining democracies because the US busted in and busted some heads, and busted up the infrastructure. They are tribal/ethnic/religious/uneducated/rural primitives who are decades or centuries behind industrial democracies.

[spursncowboys]

Sure. But the idea of any rapprochement with Obama, even limited to the war, is very unlikely.

The whole idea of the two parties coming together for the good of the country would seem to be outmoded.

Who would be questioning the progressives if not for the conservatives? Not the press. The idea of the opposite party questioning everything the president is doing keeps them honest and the govt running better. The govt. wastes less everytime the executive and legislative branches are opposite parties. However this doesn't matter and isn't the case since the Libs don't need the repubs b/c the Libs hold every kind of national majority.