What will President Obama announce on Tuesday?

Germany's top soldier has just resigned over a coverup of the killing of Afghan civilians. (That country is number three in the war, after the US and Britain.) Resistance to the war is growing in Germany just as it is here.

So what will President Obama announce at West Point on Tuesday?

He ordered up 20,000 more troops for Afghanistan in March. The frightening rumor is that he will now send 34,000 more, eight years into the war.

As of this morning, the US military death toll is Afghanistan is 927. Other military coalition deaths now number 601.

Besides the costs in lives and injury, each troop costs $1 million a year. (That of course while Americans die every day for lack of health insurance.)

In the meantime, how many Americans know that the Al Qaeda presence in Afghanistan is now 100 or less? How many know that Al Qaeda is physically operating in Pakistan, Somalia, Yemen and Algeria--and worldwide via the internet? How many know the depth of the corruption of the Karzai government? How many know that Afghanistan's Pashtuns fiercely drove out Alexander the Great 23 centuries ago and in modern times the British and the Soviets?

President Kennedy stood up to the Pentagon on Russia in Cuba and on Vietnam. President Obama can do the same and get us out, even though it could cost him a second term. We can only hope he will be as strong as Kennedy was.