Austin Bay Blog » Oh no, Afghan optimism: "For what it’s worth, I saw this optimism first-hand last June. TheSeptember elections were the buzz in the Afghan village we visited. But we’ve had to endure another six months of soap opera negativism and defeatism from the likes of Howard Dean and Ted Kennedy. Of course their focus is Iraq, but Afghanistan was to be a defeat and quagmire as well."

The media is quiet on Afghanistan, because there's not as much Bush-bashing material there.