Of course, in spite of what I said, this is completely delusional:

President Obama was asked this week by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation if Afghanistan is still winnable.

PRESIDENT OBAMA: "I think Afghanistan is still winnable, in the sense of our ability to ensure that it is not a launching pad for attacks against North America. I think it's still possible for us to stamp out al-Qaida, to make sure that extremism is not expanding but rather is contracting. I think all those goals are still possible, but I think that as a consequence to the war on Iraq, we took our eye off the ball. We have not been as focused as we need to be on all the various steps that are needed in order to deal with Afghanistan."

Oh sure, there are weasel words in there, but the truth is you can no more stamp out Al-Qaeda, than you can stamp out globs of mercury. He seems to believe, like Georgie Boy, that it is some army somewhere lurking. It is a loose chain of militant Muslims all over the place.

yours,

Peter T.