According to the Voice of America (which calls itself, "Trusted Source of News & Information since 1942", though it doesn’t say who trusts it):

U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates defended President Barack Obama’s new Afghanistan strategy at a congressional hearing on Wednesday, saying that failure in Afghanistan would mean a “Taliban takeover” of the country. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Admiral Michael Mullen also took questions from members of the Senate Armed Services Committee, with several lawmakers pressing them about the president’s pledge to begin troop withdrawals from Afghanistan by July of 2011.

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Defense Secretary Robert Gates said the stakes for U.S. national security could not be higher.

“Failure in Afghanistan would mean a Taliban takeover of much, if not most, of the country and likely a renewed civil war,” said Robert Gates.

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Secretary of State Hillary Clinton agreed that President Obama chose the best way forward out of a range of difficult options. She said Afghanistan’s vital importance to U.S. security has been clear ever since the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the United States.

Why do we care who "takes over" Afghanistan? First, nobody will or can, so killing Afghans and our young people is purely wasteful murder. And second, it’s the Afghans’ business who runs their country, not ours. And last, aren’t you totally surprised that Hillary "agreed" that Obama "chose the best way forward"? What a shock!

The Liar-in-Chief told us he would get us out of the central asian war. But if he really meant it, there is no way he would have been allowed to run for president.

Quo usque tandem abutere, Obama, patientia nostra?