Reply #14: What direction is that?

[ThomCat]

We're expanding our operations there, with still no exit strategy so we have no idea under what conditions we would ever leave.

Are we there until Bin Laden's body is found, or until the Taliban is restrained, or until the Taliban is defeated, or until the Afghanistan government is propped up again, or until a real democratic government is installed, or until the drug trade is eradicated, or until an oil pipeline that our oil companies want is finally built?

Will it ever involve reducing troop levels, or will we continue to pour ever growing amounts of money into Afghanistan?

Does it involve any new diplomatic pushes to get allied troops to join us in greater than just token numbers? Or will this continue to be essentially a US war against half of Afghanistan?

What is this clear direction you are referring to?

It seems to me that everyone else has a whole lot more questions than you do. What is this privileged information you have directly from Obama that he hasn't released to the public yet?