make the best of what we have. one of the discussions is about president obama s thoughts on afghanistan. and the press secretary jay carney said when president obama inherited the war from president bush 43, your former boss, it was in disdisarray by the judgment of many. what do you think about that? look, i think that s revisionism. let s step back and take a broader view of what the excerpts tell us about president obama. they tell us, first of all, when he talked about afghanistan being the right war, during 2007 and 2008, how we have taken our eye off of the ball by focusing on iraq when we should have been focused on winning afghanistan, that that was just merely political rhetoric. we know from secretary gates excerpts that president obama did not believe his own surge strategy, that he did not think particularly highly of our chances for success in afghanistan, and that his principle goal was not to win but to get america out.
obama inherited the war from president bush 43, your former boss, it was in disdisarray by the judgment of many. what do you think about that? look, i think that s revisionism. let s step back and take a broader view of what the excerpts tell us about president obama. they tell us, first of all, when he talked about afghanistan being the right war, during 2007 and 2008, how we have taken our eye off of the ball by focusing on iraq when we should have been focused on winning afghanistan, that that was just merely political rhetoric. we know from secretary gates excerpts that president obama did not believe his own surge strategy, that he did not think particularly highly of our chances for success in afghanistan, and that his principle goal was not to win but to get america out. and so i think i think that s very damaging criticism of president obama. and, in addition, i m sorry?