An old friend -- Bill Ayers -- parts ways with Obama on Afghanistan

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Our friend and colleague Clarence Page notes that President Obama has lost at least one old friend on one issue: Chicago’s Bill Ayers, on the escalation of the war in Afghanistan.

Obama was criticized for ‘pallin’ around with terrorists’’ during the presidential campaign by Republican Sarah Palin, who attempted to tie the Democrat’s politics to those of Ayers, the Illinois university professor and erstwhile leader of the radical Weather Underground in the 1960s who supported Obama’s early campaigns for political office.

But now it’s Ayers who is criticizing the president’s new policy of deploying 30,000 additional troops to Afghanistan while promising to start drawing down those forces in July of 2011 -- suggesting that another act of a long-running play is opening.

There’s more in The Swamp.

-- Mark Silva