Losing A Popular War

Bernard Gwertzman interviews Anthony H. Cordesman of the Center for International and Strategic Studies in Washington:

The fact is that we are winning the war that is unpopular in Iraq, and we are losing the war that is popular in Afghanistan. We simply can't wait for the next president to try to respond to what's happening in Afghanistan. We are almost going to have to have a winter campaign simply because the Taliban has built up its capabilities, particulary in eastern Afghanistan, in the course of this year.