Meanwhile, in Afghanistan...

There is little question that a great deal of America's current unhappiness with the Repubicans is being driven by a perception that the world is less safe today.  Consider the facts: North Korea goes nuclear.  Iran's influence spreads throughout the Middle East.  Our occuption of Iraq has failed, and is fueling global jihadism.  Anti-Americanism is growing in Latin America.  Russia is slipping further and further into a post-democratic state.  America abandons the Geneva conventions, undermining a big idea that has kept the world more civil in recent decades.  And of course we learn that Sec. Rice has been serial lying for years about what she and the Administration knew in the run up to 9/11....

And, as the NY Times reports today, in Afghanistan, a place where many could point to of our efforts working, the Taliban are back.