Af-Pak strategy is business to most Americans, eh!.Is it not the life and blood that counts?Is it only the money you deploy matters?concrete results should be shown according to the Chairman of the House Appropriations committee. Results in the form of currency or in the garb of peaceful exixtence?Be clear in your format.

Sounds a lot like a 'surge' doesn't it? Say, didn't that stabilize Iraq and let us start withdrawing troops? Say, didn't Obama oppose the surge? Say, doesn't he still refuse to admit it worked? I guess he learned the lesson though because he's using McCain's strategy now in Afghanistan.

No war is ever good. They are always evil, but sometimes they are a necessary evil, as this one is. Our enemies are Islamic Nazis who hate us rabidly and cannot be negotiated with, so there is nothing else to do but to continue the war to the finish.

CNN's voice of Langley speaks.

I agree, No war is good. Malcolm X did once state, "You're not supposed to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who says it." I think that Obama is going right along with Bush and McCain to be honest. I really can't pinpoint the good things he have done for this country. Hopefully things will get better.

Sounds a lot like a ’surge’ doesn’t it? – A constant mantra from the talking points of conservative talk show hows. They fail to mention that
a surge would not be required if the original process of the Iraq war was properly managed. They refuse to admit the wrong reasons to invade Iraq at a huge cost to the nation.
Obama is now cleaning the mess in Afganistan that should have been
addressed before IRAQ!
I guess we have all learned a lesson not to trust the Republicans, after all they base their foreign relations experince on the view of their
back window!

Soviet Turkistan, bordering Afghanistan is land above a sea of oil. Putin knows that will bring the Soviets back to superpower status...of course there is concern, this issue is critical to the balance of power and world peace.

One simple question regarding history,and the downfall of the "Roman Empire"? Their armies (Rome) were always fighting perrinnial conflicts throughout the world! Eventually,the massive cost to finance these forces of conquest, collapsed by their own weight,and the corruptness of their societal culture! Sound familiar? America,is on the same path of eternal conquest,and good-will to proliferate democracy throughout the known world,unfortunately our democracy is like an ice-creme shop,with many flavors to choose from,as our founding fathers were very aware of? Shame,shame, on America to behave as the righteous lords of the world's dogma's,and soviregn beliefs!

The man "Michael Ware" said we have no choice but to talk with the Taliban, alQaeda, Afghanistan, Pakistan,& don't forget ~India. I know one thing, they don't like us in there Land, period. What are we doing there anyways? I forgot, oh wait the 911 deal, didn't that happen in part because they don't want us in there Land, period. Just talk to them, shake hands, take pictures, & so on..