Wall Street Journal
Nancy Pelosi and Barack Obama are divided on Afghanistan
In a ceremony at the Pentagon yesterday commemorating the attacks of September 11,President Obama said:"Let us renew our resolve against those who perpetrated this barbaric act and who plot against us still. In defense of our nation,we will never waver."
Sometime soon,Mr. Obama will have to respond to Lieutenant General Stanley McChrystal’s likely request to increase the number of American troops in Afghanistan.
This past Thursday,House Speaker Nancy Pelosi gave the most explicit suggestion so far that Democrats may oppose any such request. "I don’t think there is a great deal of support for sending more troops to Afghanistan,"Speaker Pelosi said,"in the country or in Congress."
It is well known that Mr. Obama has called Afghanistan a "war of necessity."Less publicized is that in 2007 Speaker Pelosi was also saying that our real interests were in Afghanistan. "The war on terror is in Afghanistan,"Ms. Pelosi said just two years ago.