Mr. Obama says he will “forge a hard-earned peace in Afghanistan.” In fact, he’s going to expand an illegal, pre-9/11-planned and unfinished war with 30,000 or so new troops and also expand it to Pakistan. Mr. Obama’s rhetoric makes it seem like peace is the starting point. Afghanistan may be as tough for him as Iraq was for George Bush, if not Waterloo for Nepolean. So far, Obama is regurgitating the proven lies and myths as a foundation for his new phase of the war of terrorism.