Obama's Afghanistan deadline gives Taliban sustenance, US general warns

[Tellos Athenaios]

The deadline was put in place to placate the American Left, not the public at large. The dwindling support for the war is a direct result of the president's mismanagement of the conflict and his unwillingness to sell it to the people... or even focus on it at all.

Which makes you wonder how come Obama managed to win an election on the theme if the war was going so well...

... I would interpret the dwindling support for the war as being a sign that the public thinks the whole “get out of it” part of the plan isn't going fast enough.