On the hunt for an Afghan endgame

Spencer Ackerman, one of the stars of American national security reporting, seems to be hot on the tail of the Obama admin.'s vision of a mid term endgame for our war in Afghanistan: "Is Containing Al-Qaeda the Real Endgame in Afghanistan-Pakistan?" If Ackerman's right, I wish that Pres. Obama would have sketched this out, and pushed back against the prevailing conventional wisdom left by the Bush admin., in his speech this week instead of giving us meaningless promises of "withdrawl" and contradictory messages. But I can get behind this war if it leads to a reasonable policy of containment based on regional proxies.