President Obama may have managed to identify our core weakness when it comes to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. We are simply not “effective fighters” with “great credibility”, unlike the Afghan National Army, for instance, which is both of the above:

That’s been one of the few success stories we’ve seen over the last several years, is the Afghan National Army actually has great credibility. They’re effective fighters.

Our problem must be that we don’t have enough of our soldiers doing drugs.

The Afghan National Army achieves its reputation for credible effectiveness the old-fashioned way: it has a drug addiction rate of more than 75%. In Afghanistan, that is the old-fashioned way. And when in Rome, you gotta do what the Romans do.

As everyone knows by now, no foreign army has won a military victory in Afghanistan for n-hundred years. I’ll bet you a hundred dollars that no foreign army has ramped up their drug addiction rate to more than 75% for n-hundred years.

That, I believe, is what the opinion leaders of the other half of the country, the Republican half, regard as logical proof of that which was to be demonstrated. So herewith, with a curtsey, I claim Q.E.D.