Reidel led the Obama Administration’s strategy review of Afghanistan and Pakistan earlier this year. But he’s also worried about Iran.

“It’s clear that U.S.-Iranian relations now are going to go into an increasingly difficult period,” Reidel said. “If I was sitting in Teheran, I’d be looking for the place where you could hurt the Americans the most and that’s Obama’s war right next door in Afghanistan.”

Remember that Chicagoland speech in The Untouchables? “He sends one of yours to the hospital, you send one of his to the morgue.” Not exactly the community-organizing Chicago way, I know …

Anyway, another nuance overlooked in the complex AfPakInd picture painted by the AP’s Reid today. It isn’t just a war about al-Qaeda, or the Taliban, or Pakistan or India. It’s a war about Iran, too. A lot like Iraq that way.

jules crittenden

Will we go the way of the Russians and let all those who went before having died in vain? Plus giving the Taliban and al-Qaeda a centralized base of operations?

IMO the left will begin calling AfPak a quagmire and we all know what that means.

Also, I find the timing of the Nobel Peace Prize Award committee's announcement a bit coincidental, considering that the Nobel Peace Prize committee voted early February.