mission in afghanistan, the president did not believe in it. it took him forever to make the decision. he got the surge troops in place, and the problem, according to gates, was that he campaigned on that being the good worth. campaigned on taking that war taking it back from the taliban, and then when he sat down and looked at it, he wasn t into it. so he sends these troops in with a date to pull out, much to the dismay and anger of general petraeus and then says i don t believe in the mission. guys like that try to complete the mission that the person who sent them in doesn t believe in. and that s the outrage we re hearing from coast to coast. i imagine at walter reed today, as they read these excerpts in this book. imagine the commander in chief claiming that he supports you, but not your mission. how do you separate the two? how do you separate yourself as commander in chief from your troops and the mission you re putting forward? it just doesn t make sense, doesn t make sense