I know that may have very little influence on you intellectual Europeans but it very well might impact on Obama's ability to be elected.
So lets save the criticism for when he is actually President as opposed to having him adopt a position you are confident is right even though you very well may be wrong just for the sake of 'intellectual geopolitical masturbation conversation'.
And perhaps when he is President; he either may very well adopt your position or you may very well adopt his but until then-campaigning against a war hero who declined to be sent home from North Vietnam because he wanted to stay with his fellow soldiers is tough enough without adopting positions you would like on Afghanistan and Europe's non involvement.
The candidate must lie about what his policy would be in order to get elected?
Now, if that can be done (and it'd help if President Shit-for-Brains actually gave a damn about it), the story would change dramatically. Suddenly, the next president could declare victory and take the easy exit. Whether he/she would is another question. Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. - George Carlin
"I am a compassionate conservative. I believe the US should not be involved in using its military for international police work."