Is it the fact that he's keeping a campaign promise confusing everyone?
OK, regardless of what you think of the US involvement in Afghanistan, anyone who voted for Obama needs to take a deep breath and remember one fact:
He said, on the campaign trail, that Afghanistan was the necessary war, the right war, the war we should have been concentrating on instead of wasting resources in Iraq.
Now that he is President, he's pulling back from Iraq, and surprise surprise, putting more resources into Afghanistan.
Which is what he said he'd do.
If you heard that, and voted for him, you just got what you asked for.
If you were dancing in the streets in a fit of liberal ecstasy when he was elected, but feel the need to distance yourself now, understand that this is not a change of position on his part, but on yours.
He said, on the campaign trail, that Afghanistan was the necessary war, the right war, the war we should have been concentrating on instead of wasting resources in Iraq.
Now that he is President, he's pulling back from Iraq, and surprise surprise, putting more resources into Afghanistan.
Which is what he said he'd do.
If you heard that, and voted for him, you just got what you asked for.
If you were dancing in the streets in a fit of liberal ecstasy when he was elected, but feel the need to distance yourself now, understand that this is not a change of position on his part, but on yours.