No matter what he says or promises, it is all undermined by this statement.

We will remove our combat brigades from Iraq by the end of next summer, and all of our troops by the end of 2011.

Hey, Al-Qaeda, just hang around awhile and you’ve won.

Obama took all this time to make a decision and he ended up making one that will encourage the enemy and probably hand them a victory. And people will applaud this speech. Some may even call it Lincolnesque.