If I understand correctly—and I could be very wrong—people are demanding from Obama to spell out for them what “the objectices are” in Afghansiatn, and what “the exit startegy” is for a war started by the previous administration.

Let me ask them, what was Presdinet Bush's objective and what was president Bush's exit sytrategy in and from Afghanistan.

Knowing that might give you an idea of what Obama's objectives and exit stragety might be.

BTW, when you think about 9/11, who the attackers were, where their support, command and control came from,by whom and where they were trained, where their sympathizers, supporters and promoters were, you may get an idea of what President Bush's objecitves were and just perhaps, perhapas, what Obama's objectives might be.

So, you sat around here for years criticizing the neocons and now admit to not knowing what the foreign policy goals of neoconservatism were?

I hardly paid attention to following each of Bush's utterances the way the Olberman crowd here did, but I can readily remember at least 3:

-”flourishing democracy to replace hateful ideology”

-”God told me, George, make the world safe from terrorists” or something to that effect

-eliminate a real or imaginary Al-Q/Bin Laden stronghold

Criticize away on both the goals and the execution, but I find it patently intellectually dishonest for the Obama supporters to manage nothing more than a weak attempt to deflect the conversation back to Bush when Barry is not only carrying on the very same CIM stuff with the very same Bush guys in charge, but now actually wanting to double down on the troop commitment to it.

CIM is a means to the same goals in 2009 as they were in 2006…….you can't keep the same means and deny you're not actually pursuing the same goals…….well-articulated or not.

If all that it takes for you guys to be happy is that the CIC isn't pontificating platitudes any longer, you have very little room to criticize anyone any longer.