Reply #10: No flames from me.

[Mz Pip]

Am I happy about this? Not particularly, but Obama never promised to leave Afghanistan so anyone who is disappointed because they somehow thought otherwise wasn't really paying attention.

There are no good solutions to this. 7 years of mismanagement leaves little to salvage. It's like taking a cake recipe and substituting paprika for cinnamon, salt for sugar and lighter fluid for butter, letting it sit for 7 years then handing it off to the next cook and expect the perfect wedding cake. The ingredients handed to Obama will never result in anything palatable.

All bad choices. Every last one of them. I hope his choices do not lead us to a failure that will result in a repug taking over in 2012. Been there, done that. 1968. Don't want to do that again.