It's hard to imagine some one didn't tell Obama to fact check his history books about what happens to countries determined to "finish the job" in Afghanistan. It looks like we're in it for the long haul.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/25/us/politics/25policy.html?_r=2&partner\ =rss&emc=rss [19.ss_full] When you're wounded and left on Afghanistan's plains, And the women come out to cut up what remains, Jest roll to your rifle and blow out your brains An' go to your Gawd like a soldier. - Rudyard Kipling