Defining Moment?

CBS Chief Washington correspondent Bob Schieffer said that President Obama's speech on the Afghan war will be looked back at as the "defining moment of the Obama presidency."

Some nondescript sense of dread makes me think: "Hope not."



Although Americans make an easy target, Afghan xenophobia runs so deep that locals would meet someone from an adjacent province as an interloper... There really is no nation there at all except in the presence of a foreign occupation.