Foreign Policy Question

[JALU3]

During the 2008 US Presidential Campaign the OEF-A/ISAF operations were touted as "the Good/Just War", where as Iraq was described as the mistake, the detour, and so on. Our current President ran on such rehtorric. However, now with the announced draw down of US forces in Iraq, and a shift to Afghanistan as the main AO within the CentCom region, I have started to hear calls of Afghanistan not being a just war, that it's one that we need to get out of, and that we cannot succeed. I am sure there might have been calls of that in the past, but to me it seems to be a slowly increasing drumbeat from those on the opposite aisle from myself on the plitical spectrum. Is this the case, or am I mistaken? If this is the case, why?
Does the US and NATO plan to succeed in Afghanistan? If so, how? If so, why are some nations not willing to commit the forces and resources to achieve said success?

[Platapus]

There will always be people bitching about any war. There has never been (and I doubt will ever be) a war that everyone agrees on. We even had bunches of people against WWII.

I do have some questions I would really like to have President Obama answer.

1. What exactly is our goal in AF?
2. What are the measurables for that goal?
3. How will we measure our progress to determine "success" with respect to the goal?
4. What is our exit criteria/decision point?

These are questions any CINC needs to know before embarking on military action.

Starting a war is easy
Ending a war is not so easy.