Leon Panetta seems to feel that things are going a bit slowly in Afghanistan. Slower than anyone expected.
Slower than expected by whom? I can identify quite a number of people, from the illustrious like William Pfaff down to obscure unknowns such as your present writer, who are not only not surprised that progress hasn't been greater, but would be surprised if there is in fact any underlying, sustainable progress whatsoever.
It reminds me of how Governor Kulongoski wants us to believe that the revenue shortfall in Oregon, identified in May, "couldn't have been predicted," although quite a number of people, again including this writer, predicted it twelve months earlier. People who make mistakes shouldn't assume that nobody else is able to see future trends any better than they can.
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