A token effort

What a wealth of timely, incisive writing I'm finding out there today! Check out this essay by Robert Scheer on Mr. Bush's so-called "success" in Afghanistan. The writer notes:

Indeed, five years of "nation-building" has left Afghanistan a festering wound, with primitive warlords still dominant, an isolated capital with no control of the countryside, no national infrastructure and a once-again booming opium trade the country's only economic bright spot...

After our dramatic initial stab into Afghanistan after Sept. 11, the Bush administration has shown no willingness to do the heavy lifting that would be required to make the country once again the functioning nation it was before Cold War games tore it apart. Rather, as with the rest of its policies, a token effort has merely been a cover for conning the American public into believing Bush is effectively pursuing the war on terrorism.

As I noted the other day, Administration claims of "victory" over the Taliban are just another bit of misinformation being sold to us by a group that's honed that deceitful practice to a fine art.