How Does Obama See The War?

Joyner is basically where I am:

My takeaway from all this was that President Obama had come tobelieve, as had I, that the very ambitious set of goals articulated byhis predecessor were unattainable but that he believed saying that waspolitically untenable.  Since he had campaigned on Afghanistan as a"war of necessity" that the Bush administration had under-resourced topursue a "war of choice" in Iraq, he couldn't very well say, meremonths into his term, that Afghanistan wasn't worth it after...