I find it interesting what the press chooses to cover. It seems that the Iraqi Insurgency is still a problem. Yet media figures no longer seems to care much about it. Just some recent incidents:

• Today: 9 Iraqis killed in bombings.
• 3 days ago: Series of suicide attacks kills 33 in Iraq
• 5 days ago: Son kills father who translated for U.S. in Iraq

This is just within the last week according to USA Today.  President Obama says that we will be leaving the country in 2011. Have we accomplished our goal in Iraq? (Setting up a stable representative government.) How long will it last once we leave? How much thought does the administration actually give to these questions?

The firing of General McChrystal today just underscores the administration’s tentativeness regarding foreign policy. Personally, I would have fired McChrystal as well – for sheer fool-hardiness. However, the incident should never have been allowed to happen in the first place. There is no doubt that the administration is as much a bunch of bumbling fools as McChrystal portrayed them in the now notorious Rolling Stone story. Had the president been on top of things…Well, he wouldn’t have to deal with insubordination from one of his best field commanders.

Which brings me full circle from Afghanistan to Iraq. We have made so many strides in Iraq. I wouldn’t put it past this president to let them all slip away.