And as I warned earlier in the thread, Obama is setting an end-date for the war in Afghanistan, not a winning solution.

President Obama intends to conclude the Afghanistan war and withdraw most U.S. troops within three years, according to senior administration officials.

Obama is sending 30,000 additional troops to Afghanistan and ordering military officials to get the reinforcements there within six months, White House officials told CNN Tuesday.

Obama will travel to the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, New York, later Tuesday to officially announce his plans. It would to be his second escalation of U.S. forces in the war-torn Islamic country since he came to power in January.

He’s basically telegraphing to the Taliban and all our enemies that they simply have to outlast the US resolve to succeed.

Great.