Barack Obama: “This month, our combat mission in Afghanistan will be over.”

The success of this experiment was never a given.

I was a little tall for it.

Your task is not to impose litmus tests.

We’ve now fought a war, spent billions and billions of dollars, you know, put enormous strain on our military. A lot of people have died. And it feels like we’re back where we were before we started the war, except maybe a little bit worse…