David Frum: Is Current Afghan Mission Obsolete?

[Keith Bee]

Washington (CNN) -- The killing of Osama bin Laden raises many haunting questions. Here's the most important:

Has our mission in Afghanistan become obsolete?

To think through that question, start with a prior question: Why did we remain in Afghanistan after the overthrow of the Taliban?

The usual answer to that question is: To prevent Afghanistan from re-emerging as a terrorist safe haven.

There have always been a lot of problems with that answer. (For example: Does it really take 100,000 U.S. troops, plus allies, to prevent a country from becoming a terrorist safe haven? We're doing a pretty good job in Yemen with a radically smaller presence.)

http://www.cnn.com/2011/OPINION/05/09/frum.pakistan.trap/index.html?hpt=T2

I think getting booted from AEI may have knocked a little sense into this guy. A little.