THE LONGEST DAY

In his speech from Afghanistan May 1, President Obama said we will not be militarily involved there one day longer than necessary. Since we should never have spent one single day in Afghanistan, we have, as of today, been there 3,862 days longer than necessary. Funny, I can still remember LBJ announcing we wouldn't be in Vietnam one day longer than necessary, and forty years later, President George W. Bush boasting we wouldn't be in Iraq one day longer than necessary. Apparently, for US Presidents, a single day can last forever.


Originally published in the Chicago Sun Times, May 5, 2012