Says the Speaker of the House of Representatives about the ongoing operations in the Global (imagine that) War on Terror:

"When we know that the real war on terror is in Afghanistan, how can we have that real effort with a sustained effort in Iraq continuing?"

You know, during the 1980s our military was trained, prepared, and equipped specifically to be capable of prosecuting a two-front war against major standing armies. Pelosi was alive then; in fact, she was in Congress at the end of the 1980s. It's a shame that she's spent so much time concentrating on keeping the wages of tuna fishermen depressed in American Samoa, instead of paying attention to what's going on around her. If she had been paying a little more attention, she might have a little more faith in our military (even post-Clinton) than to assume that a low-intensity conflict in a piddly little country like Afghanistan would necessitate the full concentration of our attention and of every one of our dollars and deployed troops.

Clearly Ms. Pelosi is a nonbeliever in multitasking (guess she didn't evolve that skill like so many of her fellow advanced primates did), but this still borders on the ridiculous. Claiming that we are incapable of prosecuting the LIC operations currently ongoing in Afghanistan because we are actually doing a single other thing anywhere else is akin to -- but actually even stupider than -- decrying an attempt to walk and chew gum at the same time, not because walking is a complex and compound movement, but because chewing gum is just too difficult and requires too much concentration.

I'm glad Ms. Pelosi has an official driver -- I'd hate to see her behind the wheel of a car. After all, if this entire country can't do two things at once, then steering, pushing the gas and brake, and looking in those mirrors must be a simply impossible job for a mere one person....if that person is America's Mother-in-Law Pelosi, that is.