Bob Woodward book details Obama battles with advisers over exit plan for Afghan war

"We can absorb another terrorist attack"....when I heard that line....all I could see was Gene Hackman discovering there are "Acceptable levels of deaths" in car manufacturers number crunching in the 1991 film Class Action. Perhaps they are - perhaps we could - but what if those acceptable levels were your family? Heartless.....

Bob Woodward book details Obama battles with advisers over exit plan for Afghan war: "

President Obama urgently looked for a way out of the war in Afghanistan last year, repeatedly pressing his top military advisers for an exit plan that they never gave him, according to secret meeting notes and documents cited in a new book by journalist Bob Woodward.

Frustrated with his military commanders for consistently offering only options that required significantly more troops, Obama finally crafted his own strategy, dictating a classified six-page 'terms sheet' that sought to limit U.S. involvement, Woodward reports in 'Obama's Wars,' to be released on Monday.

According to Woodward's meeting-by-meeting, memo-by-memo account of the 2009 Afghan strategy review, the president avoided talk of victory as he described his objectives."