Oh, LH, I totally agree with
your last post,
but for the very reasons you outlined therein, if Obama were to rapidly withdraw troops from Afghanistan -- especially against the advice of his Generals -- and we were to be attacked again, the Right wing and their lapdog media would surely use that to convince the populace at large that it just proves that Democrats can't "keep us safe."

(The fact that the Bush administration managed to convince so many people that they had "kept us safe" when the 9-11-01 attacks happened on their watch - that boggles the mind.)