Would a war in Iraq destabilize Afghanistan?

No, really this is their headline on MSN, which you so obligingly get when leaving Hotmail. Now I once had a professor who oft-repeated that old chestnut: There are no stupid questions...etc...

He had no concept of the modern media. I guess that my obvious answer would have to be: "When was Afghanistan stable?". I mean the whole Afghan situation is sitting over there simmering while McHappySnort & Co. are trying to figure out if OBL is actually dead or alive, (maybe Peggy Noonan can channel him) and June Thomas of Slate asks a question like that.

I have to wonder what the solution BushRoveCo do have in mind for Afghanistan. It's become increasingly clear the the "hands-off" no-nation-building-policy preferred by the neocons/chickenhawks toward Afghanistan is beginning to breed considerable resentment among the current residents of the country.

Sucks to be them and have no subterranean oil reserves, eh?

Weren't there grand proclamations made by the 1600 Crew about the liberation of the Afghanistan and how we would "aid" them in their transition to democracy? Hmmm. Could it be yet more politically-inspired jaw-flapping by this administration, that keeps no promises except for tax breaks for their wealthy investors rich friends, the incursion of debt and the inevitability of a war that may prove worse than they expect?

I'm not sure I want to know the answer to that question.