OBAMA’S AFGHANISTAN SURGE: “This deployment was planned under Bush, but Obama will own it. His rhetoric about this region has always been aggressive (see Pakistan: bombing it) and he’s long talked of doubling down on troop strength in Afghanistan. Now Obama’s getting his wish and the wheels of war are spinning more quickly than they were just a few months ago. What happens this spring will set the direction and tone of Obama’s war.” But, of course, it’s our war — just as it was when Bush was President. (Via A.C. Kleinheider).