Tomguy53 wrote:
I didn't hear the speech tonight, but let me guess, not much was said about that at all.
I listened to it all and you're right: it mostly looked forward.

I went to a couple of speeches by Obama the candidate, listened to a hell of a lot more of them and read all of his policy papers.

After all of that I am not the least-bit surprised by this decision since it is, in fact, keeping his promise to not let Afganistan go further to hell in a handbasket.

Anyone who was listening during the campaign NEVER heard him say he would pull out of Afghanistan or anything like it. Quite the contrary and I voted for him knowing this.

I hope people didn't vote for him thinking "change" meant anything they wanted it to mean.