Oh, that war

As we are just five weeks from 2014 - take one last look at the lengthening shadow of what could have been, what was - and ponder the lost opportunity due to drift and the neglect of a bored leadership.

AFP got some important things very wrong. President Obama did not "order the surge" in DEC 09 - the surge began more than a year earlier. DEC 09 is when he signaled withdraw.