rethinking afghanistan. we're not winning. it's not worth it. i'll read a bit from it, richard. the war in the united states is now fighting in afghanistan is not succeeding and is not worth waging in this way. the time has come to scale back u.s. objectives and sharply reduce u.s. involvement on the ground. afghanistan is claiming too many american lives, requiring too much attention, and absorbing too much resources, the sooner we accept that afghanistan is less a problem to be fixed than a situation to be managed, the better. you start out this piece talking about michael steele's comments and giving some credit to them. but, you know, especially when he talks about this being welcome obama's war. it is obama's war. he has ramped it up in a way has never happened there, but it is because it was manage inside a certain way for nine years and it still exists and he adopted it possibly because it was managed badly. shouldn't this have been