This cute little phrase represents the last policy initiative that both the Rockefeller Republicans and the Democrats who are running this country still seem to support. With the war in Iraq now almost certainly “lost” in the minds of the men leading this nation the one remaining front in the war against radical Islam is in Afghanistan. It may not be a front much longer.

With France, Germany, Spain and Italy refusing to engage the enemy (or even deploy into hostile provinces) it would seem that the NATO mission in Afghanistan is collapsing due to lack of troops. Pakistan has now told certain NATO members in secret meetings that the Taliban have won in Afghanistan and the best thing for everyone involved is to just leave.

Senior Pakistani officials are urging NATO countries to accept the Taliban and work toward a new coalition government in Kabul that might exclude President Karzai of Afghanistan.

Pakistan’s foreign minister, Khurshid Kasuri, has said in private briefings to foreign ministers of some NATO member states that the Taliban are winning the war in Afghanistan and that NATO is bound to fail. He has advised against sending more troops.

Since President Bush lacks the political will to send US forces into Pakistan it seems that Osama bin Laden and Mullah Omar have secured for themselves in Waziristan what they once had in Afghanistan, a state of their own from which to conduct terror operations around the world.

Remind me again why we invaded Afghanistan?