From The Washington Post
By Dan Froomkin

With less than four months left in their tenure, White House aides are scrambling to come up with some sort of winning strategy for Afghanistan, the long-eclipsed war that’s looking increasingly like another major debacle for President Bush’s legacy.

There’s no question Afghanistan demands a new approach. Experts have been saying that for months if not years. But the White House’s new sense of urgency may have more to do with trying to insulate Bush from history’s verdict that he let Afghanistan slip through his fingers.

Karen DeYoung writes in The Washington Post: “The White House has launched an urgent review of Afghanistan policy, fast-tracked for completion in the next several weeks, amid growing concern that the administration lacks a comprehensive strategy for the foundering war there and as intelligence officials warn of a rapidly worsening situation on the ground.

“Underlying the deliberations is a nearly completed National Intelligence Estimate on Afghanistan and the Pakistan-based extremists fighting there. Analysts have concluded that reconstituted elements of al-Qaeda and the resurgent Taliban are collaborating with an expanding network of militant groups, making the counterinsurgency war infinitely more complicated.

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