Kind of a busy week for me last week, so the Afghanistan Study Group’s report got back-burnered. But now Josh Foust has persuaded me that it’s not worth my while. This is an epic burn:

In a very real way, the Afghanistan Study Group blames our problems on Afghanistan—the civil war, the al Qaeda safe havens, and so on. It’s the equivalent of complaining, “math is hard” when you do poorly on a math quiz.

Not having read the original document, it’s not fair of me to adjudicate whether Josh is being fair here, but still — oof.

Just to be clear: none of this is to say that an alternate strategy is impossible, a point I suspect Josh would eagerly endorse. I’ll surely read the actual report to see whether the critique is deserved, but for now it’s Redskins-Cowboys.