With apologies to Rod Serling and his classic “Twilight Zone” TV series, there is a signpost up ahead in America, and it reads, “The Chaos Zone.” The firing of Gen. Stanley McChrystal is just one piece of a jumbled public policy puzzle that now threatens the presidency of Barack Obama.

Let’s take it step by step. Afghanistan is going poorly because the Afghan government is corrupt and the folks distrust their leadership. So there’s not great enthusiasm to fight the Taliban even though those killers are despised, as well.