Jon Huntsman wants to pull out of Afghanistan. Adam Sorensen analyzes:
As I wrote when Huntsman first starting talking to the press about these issues, there’s room for a mainstream Republican isolationist to capitalize on the unpopularity of the wars in Afghanistan and Libya, at least in a general election. (Independents and Democrats disapprove more than Republicans, but the Tea Party shares some of their distaste for intervention, albeit for fiscal reasons.) Haley Barbour seemed to be making that calculation back when he was still flirting with a presidential bid. And for Huntsman, as a moderate Mormon technocrat and recent employee of Barack Obama, it’s one of the few areas where he can draw a strong contrast with his chief primary rival, and ultimately, the President himself.
The Dish 