I don't see this as a distraction from the VA issues. My first and only thought is that this is about drawing down our troops over there, and acknowledging that after we are gone, that the Taliban will be prominent "gov't" again. If you want to talk about fubars, Afghanistan has been a fubar since we took our eyes off that part of the world and marched into Bagdad. It's really been a fuster cluck ever since. Seating Karzai and his corrupt minions in power. Allowing Bin Laden and his hoard to slip into Pakistan. To me, this is just the latest saga in a chapter that probably never should have been written into our history or current affairs to begin with.