"This Big Push Now" - The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan

"This Big Push Now" - The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan

Obama "The strategy that I'm pursuing is designed to say let's see if we can change the conditions on the ground in a time certain period. There are risks associated with that, but in the absence of that push, we are in a situation that doesn't change, and there are big costs associated to troop presence, to casualties, to a slowly deteriorating situation over a course of years that are at least comparable and probably worse than us going ahead and making this big push now."