When President Obama first announced his Afghan strategy, John McCain warned that the failure to commit enough troops to the fight would inevitably lead to a “Lyndon Johnson-style” incremental escalation. Indeed, in early June the Pentagon “quietly” sent an additional 1,000 special operations troops to Afghanistan “to bolster a larger conventional troop buildup” that was already well underway. And now today comes a report from the Washington Post that General McChrystal has concluded that,