And here we go again...

Change we can believe in.

That was, I think, the Democrat candidate's slogan.

For some reason I didn't exactly believe there would be much change.

Barack Obama had a handicap vis-à-vis his Republican challenger: a majority of Americans believed he couldn't handle the responsibilities of commander in chief of the military.

So Obama had to do something about this.

Where John McCain pretended he would win both wars, in Iraq and in Afghanistan, Obama had pledged he would have most American soldiers in Iraq back home within 16 months of his mandate whereas in the same time he would send 15.000 more in Afghanistan.

Does anyone know what winning the war in Iraq or Afghanistan may ever mean?

A majority of Americans now believes going to Irak wasn't a wise thing to do and asks for a return of the troops but still, this Nation has been so thoroughly brainwashed into thinking that barbarian terrorists were out there only to destroy their country that too many Americans seem not to mind sending troops in Afghanistan. Can B. Obama say to a war thirsty country that the US will retreat from Afghanistan?

Against which army by the way? S. Hussein's army wasn't top notch by 2003 but still, there was an army. But in Afghanistan???

This whole madness reminds me of Dino Buzzati's novel, The Tartar Steppe.

Since Obama has been elected, Afghanistan has taken the place of Irak as the perfect example of a foreign policy gone awry.

So Obama has just made a shift in the deployment of the army but one way or another he carries on a war against spooks.

As a reminder, the only terrorists who ever hit America were Saudis. Not Irakis and even less Afghans.

And now this war is his.