Quote Originally Posted by daihashi
That's true, but I rather us not make the same mistake we made in afghanistan by leaving a job half done as it is. You know? If we're going to do something I'd rather we do it right. I'm still pissed that we ever left Afghanistan.
Yeah, but those troops for the surge had to come from somewhere; the unfortunate thing is that a lot of them came from Afghanistan, and now the situation is worse there. We had a lot more foreign assistance in Afghanistan, which is perhaps why we thought we could afford to pull some troops out. But with the US's current international image, I don't think anyone's looking to do us any favors.

This all makes Bill O'Reilly's insistence that Obama admit he was wrong to not support the surge seem kind of silly.