The Willful Suspension of (Logic and) Disbelief

So begins a piece, "U.S. Offensive Stalls in Key Afghan City", in today's Wall Street Journal:

"The commander of coalition forces in Afghanistan said the offensive in Kandahar is going more slowly than expected, in part because it still lacks the wholehearted support of the local population.

U.S. Gen. Stanley McChrystal's warning, delivered in Brussels at a meeting of North Atlantic Treaty Organization members, is the latest effort by military leaders to play down hopes for rapid progress in Afghanistan, where U.S. President Barack Obama would like to begin a drawdown of troops in July of 2011. The U.S.-led coalition has been ramping up operations in turbulent southern provinces since spring, with 30,000 additional U.S. troops to arrive this year. (End of the beginning of the WSJ article.)

McChrystal said, "I do think that (the pacification of Kandahar) will happen more slowly than we had originally anticipated. But I don't think that's necessarily a bad thing. I think it's more important we get it right than we get it fast."

So, all the troops ordered to Afghanistan by President Obama last December are not even in Afghanistan yet, the pace of operations envisioned back in December is behind schedule and the Wall Street Journal can still entertain Obama's fantasy of a draw down of a major military operation 13 months from now?

Hey, can someone get me Megan Fox's phone number?