So what is the plan, again?

Today Hamid Karzai did what any scandal-ridden American politician would do- he went on "Good Morning America" with Dianne Sawyer to clear his good name. After dispelling notions of election fraud, Karzai surprisingly threw a wrench into the propaganda of the war escalators. Though Karzai supports the McChrystal report, he also said:

"Al Qaeda was driven out of Afghanistan in 2001. They have no base in Afghanistan. The war against terrorism is not in Afghan villages, is not in the Afghan countryside."

This should not be shocking news- General Petraeus actually conceded that much back in May.

Every week or so we should pause and ask, "What exactly are we doing in Afghanistan?" If the nation's president and our top military commander (Petreaus is essentially McChrystal's boss) both say Al-Qaeda is in Pakistan, then wouldn't the logical plan be to send special forces into the Pakistani mountains? That sounds more like the Biden plan. Surely we don't need 40,000 more soldiers to fight the Taliban in the countryside when President Karzai is telling us the fight is not in the Afghan countryside.

Heck, do we even have to send these soldiers through Afghanistan? The infrastructure is far better in Pakistan, and as it is, we route many supplies through Pakistan to get to our outposts in Eastern Afghanistan. Either way, tracking down 200-300 members of Al Qaeda in the mountains is no easy task. Just look at these pictures.

Make no mistake, every soldier we send to Afghanistan to escalate the war will cost us $775,000, per soldier per year. Many of those soldiers will die. And 100% of this blood and treasure will go to defeating Taliban fighters who have no long-term interest in anything but reclaiming what they believe is their land, and we will do so at the behest of the crooked and corrupt Karzai family.

So tell me, what is the game plan again?