Afghanistan was under control for most of the previous administration. Bush got battered for not having enough of a plan for getting out of Iraq long after the benchmarks were published. Also, he didn’t use the situation to get elected; because in 2000, it wasn’t much of an issue. Obama chided Bush for not paying enough attention to Afghanistan, campaigned on making it a top priority; then put it on the back burner once he got into the White House. He talked about implementing a Marshall Plan in Afghanistan, but that’s all he’s done. This bit about “well, he’s only been in office for…” doesn’t wash. He’s nearly a quarter of the way thru his term, and he has yet to deal with this situation in any meaningful way. If he has enough time on his hands to come up with a healthcare reform plan over a thousand pages long, he’s had more than enough time to let our service members know what he expects them to accomplish. And if he were paying more attention to what was going on in Afghanistan, you can bet the American public would be, too. Obama can get a trillion dollars from the American people to fund his healthcare, there’s no way to use the excuse that he couldn’t get the public to back him in “a war that we have to win”. The President is neglecting our troops as they’re fighting a war he claims he supports, and Jviehe is right to call him on it.