Major combat operations

... aren't even over in Afghanistan.

If one of the Democrats manages to prevent McCain from delivering four more years of Bushist misrule, Afghanistan is the place to prove Democratic national security credibility. The Taliban, after all, actually did attack us.

The problem with that, of course, is that Americans are tired of Iraq, which has been going on for five years, while the war in Afghanistan has taken six and a half. Fatigue makes a hard problem even more difficult.