Totally Botched!

Due to the president's attention deficit disordered foreign policy, Afghanistan has now achieved the distinction of being in a worse state than it was when run by the Taliban. Given their (the Taliban's)ignorant, luddite (actually, pre-luddite might be appropriate), and retrograde governance, this is no mean feat. To be fair, there is a patina of increased freedom in the country. However, since the freedom often involves being killed by unrestrained terrorist or "militia" groups, it is of little value to most people. Things have become so bad that Medesins San Frontieres, which has managed to remain active in Afghanistan throughout the war with the Soviet Union and the reign of the Taliban, has been forced to leave the country; the opium trade is now so robust (remember when Rush Limbaugh praised the Taliban for their effort to end the cultivation of Poppies?) that Afghani heroin has largely priced the traditional Golden Triangle out of the heroin business. Fortunately for the people of that regionn, it has been easy to switch to factory production of methamphetamines, which are enjoying a boom in sales in South East Asia...
To return to the original topic, President Bush, feeling he wasn't getting enough column inches in the major newspapers, decided he was "Mission Accomplished" in Afghanistan, and turned his attention to Iraq. Actually, I suppose, he always intended Iraq as his major objective. Having little-to-no ability to see consequences, he overthrew the government of Iraq, which proved not so very hard to do, militarily inconsequential as they were, and then decided that Iraq, too, was a "Mission Accomplished". I truly believe that to this day he doesn't understand that simply ousting Saddam Hussein doesn't fix anything. Post-Saddam, there is an entire country (yes, we know; The Size of California), filled with Real People, that requires resources, governance, the full panoply of societal infrastructure that the president ignorantly believes occurs by default. His neo-cons, being more evolved, believed (I think) that with the Iraqis throwing flowers, and with Halliburton pumping oil, everything would work out. Infrastructure to the laissez-faire capitalist means banking, and nothing else.
So now, with Afghanistan in stasis, and Iraq approaching that state, what do we do next?
The choice is clear: New Tax Cuts, or New President.