We’ve been wait­ing for quite a while now for our Dear Leader to make a deci­sion, yea or nay, to send more troops to Afghanistan.  It appears next Tues­day an announce­ment on that deci­sion will be made:

Mil­i­tary offi­cials and oth­ers expect Obama to set­tle on a middle-ground option that would deploy an even­tual 32,000 to 35,000 U.S. forces. That rough fig­ure has stood as the most likely option since before Obama’s last large war coun­cil meet­ing ear­lier this month, when he tasked mil­i­tary plan­ners with rear­rang­ing the tim­ing and makeup of some of the deployments.

Well, it’s about time.  Since August 30, when Gen­eral Stan­ley McChrystal’s report was deliv­ered to the Depart­ment of Defense, 115 U.S. sol­diers have died in Afghanistan.  (Click here to read the report.)  Octo­ber was by far the dead­liest month, with 59 casu­al­ties.  If you look at the trend for the year, it appears that the insur­gency in Afghanistan has been embold­ened — but by what?

In my opin­ion, the insur­gents have taken the hint from Obama that he’s not that seri­ous in tak­ing Al-Qaeda head-on.  They’ve taken advan­tage of his dither­ing and stepped up the attacks on our sol­diers.  This deci­sion to send more troops should have been made months ago.