Nobody took more guff from the left for backing the surge in Iraq than Michael O’Hanlon — though O’Hanlon, of course, turned out to be right on the money in his analysis of the war there. Today O’Hanlon co-authors an op-ed with Bruce Riedel, the man who oversaw the Obama administration’s first review of Afghanistan policy, arguing in favor of a robust counterinsurgency strategy rather than the over-the-horizon counterterrorism strategy favored by some on the left. The two write: