"Invading Afganistan was the wrong thing to do in the first place"

Who "invaded" Afghanistan Bobert? Certainly not the US.


"... It didn't make anyone any safer"

The intervention in Afghanistan immediately made about 58% of the population of Afghanistan safer for a start.

"Hell no, there was no reason to get into Afganistan"

Take that one up with the United Nations, they declared Afghanistan a "Failed State" in which case they are compelled to act. Their "Failed State" status had nothing whatsoever to do with Al-Qaeda or with the attacks on the USA launched by Al-Qaeda on 9/11. The overriding reason to get into Afghanistan was to return the country to stable governance for the good of the country and the region as a whole.

"The Afganistan war was wrong then and is wrong now"

IIRC Obama said throughout his election campaigning that he was going to redirect US effort away from and out of Iraq and into Afghanistan. So Bobert he is only doing what he said he was going to do all along, if you believed that to be wrong why did you vote for him?

My objection stems from the way he has done this and the time it has taken him to do it. It was always as plain as a pike-staff that McChrystal's reading of the situation was right and that Joe Biden's was wrong (again), there never was an decision or choice to make. By dithering as he (Obama) did it just made him look weak and signalled lack of resolution or commitment.