I’m not one to toot my own horn, but last Wednesday I wrote an article saying that President Obama made a mistake by capitulating to Republicans on foreign policy. I wrote:

Obama should have immediately removed all troops from Iraq and Afghanistan, declaring victory in both areas while acknowledging that the U.S. is not in the business of nation building. He should have removed U.S. bases in places like South Korea and Japan, whose peoples don’t want us there anymore, and stopped subsidizing Western Europe’s defense. He should have announced that America would no longer have an imperial presence around the globe.

Lo and behold, a new CNN/Opinion Research poll says that only 37 percent of Americans favor the war in Afghanistan.

One certainly shouldn’t favor policies just because the majority does, but when you supposedly aren’t ecstatic about the war in the first place, why would you go against them?

My suggestions still stand.