Oh, you just assume it was, and then "everybody's happy".

I think Obama is making a serious error in trying to win a war in Afghanistan, but he probably felt he couldn't win the election withouth pursuing such a policy...and now feels committed to it.

I do not believe Afghanistan poses any real threat to the security of the USA...but only to its own people. It's the USA, as usual, which poses a real threat to someone's security in this picture.

What the forces fighting in Afghanistan want is the same thing they've always wanted: local power on their own turf and no foreign presence in Afghanistan.