If the Obama administration was to abandon Afghanistan, what would it look like?

Well, the first thing you'd have to do is manufacture consent here in the U.S. by recasting the Afghan government as unworthy of U.S. support--say like the South Vietnamese regime?

U.S. Secretary of State-designate Hillary Clinton's use of the term "narco state" to describe Afghanistan in a recent Senate testimony has caught the attention of her Afghan counterpart.

Her Afghan counterpart was concerned enough to make his own seemingly panicked statement.

"Madame Clinton is a good friend of Afghanistan, a close friend of ours," Spanta told The Associated Press in an interview arranged to rebut Clinton's classification of Afghanistan.

"But if somebody believes that our government, the government of President (Hamid) Karzai is involved as a government entity in the production of drugs, this is absolutely wrong."

Its notable that the Democrats plan to throw Colombia to the wolves was also preceded by such rhetorical flourishes.

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