So basically the Taliban just have to wait keep a low profile for a short 18 months, then NATO/US will be gone and Karzai will be toppled and probably executed and things will be back to the way they were pre 9/11.

30,000 more troops ain't gonna do the job either. USSR had over 200,000 at their peak and we know how that ended.

The funny thing about his speech was the cadets in the audience sleeping and looking like they were falling asleep.

As well strange as this sounds the first part of his speech sounded like it could of been written by Bush.

American is great at portraying themselves as victims and expecting everyone to jump onside, and they were in this case but they 'forget' they have caused much greater tragedy's to many other countries and a great many people around the world. Including the first 9/11 in 1973 in Chile...