Powell echoes challenges ahead in Afghanistan

Many of you that have visited this site over the years get steamed when I deem anything that Colin Powell says as credible.  Yes, he wasn't tough enough to stand up to Bush before the war, and knowingly lied about Saddam's weapons programs to the United Nations General Assembly.  Even with that said, he is one of the most well-known pragmatic military minds today.  Like Obama and other Democrats, Powell noted today that Afghanistan might even be an even tougher task than Iraq:

"We have responsibilities in Afghanistan. And in some ways, Afghanistanis more difficult than Iraq. You have the tribal problems. You had druglords running around ... and al Qaeda and the Taliban are making aresurgence," Powell said.

Unlike Iraq, where Al Qaeda has already been rejected by the locals, they have formed unbreakable alliances in Afghanistan with warlords and former Taliban officials.