Dick Cheney accuses President Obama of "dithering" instead of doing what it takes to win the war in Afghanistan. (Watch Cheney criticize Obama) Democrats say Obama is just deliberating carefully on whether to send more U.S. troops to fix problems the Bush administration created. (Watch Obama spokesman Robert Gibbs' response) Who's to blame for insurgent gains in Afghanistan?
Cheney-Bush had their chance and failed: The former vice president is one to talk, said Howard Kurtz in The Washington Post. The man who famously promised that Americans would be welcomed as liberators in Iraq has, "shall we say, a mixed record when it comes to war." It's fair for Democrats to ask why, "if the right path in Afghanistan were clear," the Bush-Cheney "failed to find it for seven years."
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