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My guess is that you are right and he has been co-oped. There is also the chance that he operates on principle and could care less about career. That would be a difficult situation for Obama and unusual for someone with four stars. He could have said he would run the war the right way or resign. I would, but then maybe that is the reason my highest professional achievement was v.p. finance at a small Christian college.

In regard to why bother, accomplishing Afghan stability means thwarting efforts to turn a nuclear Pakistan into a feral state, by eliminating the safe haven al Qaida and the Taliban would use to destroy the government. Such a country would then fuel with nuclear devices the ambitions of Islamic regimes determined to wage a War of Terror regionally and internationally.

Afghan stability also encourages the actions of African, Oriental and Asian Islamic countries, which bring victory in the Global War on Terror. The U.S. and other Western countries must prove themselves to be dependable allies against jihadist factions determined to rule by violent means. In such an environment, we are able to ally with a host of countries in a host of actions short of war.

African/Oriental/Asian actions then frustrate plans, break alliances, and fracture Islamic jihadist organizations into ever less effective units. Without cities, countries or armies bin Laden, and successor sociopath prophets live out unnaturally shortened lives as pariahs.