Problem: Afghanistan being, well, Afghanistan, is resisting the obvious charisma, hope, and change of the glorious leader all but the most seditious of us love with every fiber of our being by obstinately refusing to play along.

Solution: Move the goalposts, and blame Bush.

I'm not sure who this guy is, but he seems to get on French TV regularly enough. If that doesn't define the thin wedge of the defeatist left, I don't know what does.