Barack Obama: “I have determined that it is in our vital national interest to send an additional 30,000 U.S. troops to Afghanistan.”

I was a little tall for it.

Listen, hypocrisy is progress.

They're meant to remind us of who we can be, to remind us of what's possible, so we can forge ahead.

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…