My Bloomberg View colleague Tobin Harshaw concludes:
Those of us who favor keeping U.S. troops in Afghanistan and those who feel it is a waste of lives and money deserve the same thing: presidential clarity. Tell us what, exactly, we still hope to accomplish.
My American Enterprise Institute colleague Frederick Kagan sums up the Obama record:
There was no meaningful al Qaeda presence in Afghanistan when Barack Obama took office. There will likely be al Qaeda strategic bases there when he leaves. That is failure by any standard.