We may live in the only state in America where President Obama’s Afghanistan strategy makes sense.

Across the country, citizens are trying to grasp what our president was trying to tell us Tuesday night. On the one hand, sending 30,000 more troops is “in our vital national interest” because “what’s at stake [in Afghanistan] is the security of our allies, and the common security of the world.”

On the other hand, “after 18 months, our troops will begin to come home,” and we’ll “begin the transfer of our forces out of Afghanistan in July of 2011.”

As military historian Ralph Peters put it, “It’s as if, during WWII, we’d told the Japanese and Germans that we really meant business, but intended to quit by 1944.”

The policy isn’t “Go...