Petraeus: "Violence Will Increase in Afghanistan"

As a result of the US military escalation, US troops would "have to fight their way into enemy strongholds and clear enemy-controlled population centers."
But wait: Hamid Karsai, our 'boy in charge' of that desperate country, stated that it would be 15 to 20 years before Afghanistan would be able to sustain its own security forces.
As long as the long-anticipated oil pipeline will enrich the wealthy owners in our United States, the casualties among our soldiers and airmen will not be of great concern to small and tiny (CHANGE) Obama, our supposed deliverer from the alleged evils of our Cheney/Bush administration.
According to the New York Times, Pentagon aides went further, clarifying that when Gates spoke of a withdrawal taking YEARS, he was not referring to a complete pulling out of US troops, but merely to a: "gradual" and "conditions-based" theater of the absurd, and an almost imperceptible change in the US military role!
Before a lot of fools were enticed to vote for him, Obama DID promise change, and now you have it.