Reply #2: Breathless reactionary nonsense.

[Robb]

...this war doesn't make us safer, especially given the fact that we don't have a reliable local partner in Afghan President Hamid Karzai. Karzai, you recall, recently pondered aloud whether the time was coming when he would join the Taliban.

He acts like somehow Obama has been thinking all along Karzai would be great, and last week's latest was some kind of calamity that caught the administration by surprise, confirming all his greatest fears about Obama's ineptitude in Afghanistan. http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=433x266228">There is nothing new about the Obama/Karzai relationship.

Greenwald is either ignorant, or willfully misconstruing reality.

Edited to add: Or he's got another book on sale.