Views from the state   President Barack Obama is right about one
thing: The American people are weary of war. They are weary of
an Afghan war that began righteously, in pursuit of the evil-
doers who plotted the 9/11 terrorist assault, but whose capital
was frittered away with the sideshow of unnecessary war in Iraq.
They're weary of a war that is itself now a sideshow to the
Taliban's rise, abetted by new terrorist havens in Pakistan.
More than a decade after 9/11, the downside of waging an
endless, worldwide, 24/7 "war on terror" is sinking in. Nonstop
war has sapped our resources and the resilience of our armed
forces.  So one can't fault the president for trying to put the
best face on his latest plan: an orderly retreat from these
frustrating, costly wars.  Nor is it a bad plan. ...  But Obama
is wrong to oversimplify the dangers and the mess that still
exist. We're bidding well to repeat the error of 1989, when
America walked away and left Afghanistan to descend into chaos,
with Osama bin Laden the bene