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are probably the first guys that lose if this midterm election goes badly. so he won t even have he will have even fewer democrats left in congress backing him up on anything beyond july 2011. that appears what he is talking about here in the book, the woodward book and what president obama told gates, robert gates, the secretary of defense and secretary clinton. secretary of state, i m not doing ten years i m not doing long-term nation building. i m not spending a trillion dollars. i guess, andrea, you are the expert on foreign policy. why is he doing what he is doing if he doesn t think it is working, because he says i don t believe in nation building? isn t that what we re trying to do in this short time frame? it is. and i think that he really what you see in the book is that he felt trapped by being in afghanistan. he had campaigned against the war in iraq. afghanistan and the commitment there was really the exit strategy from iraq. it was clear to the military you could

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