Barack Obama: “The answer is that, in the absence of a deadline, the message we are sending to the Afghans is, it's business as usual…”

Every president here today, as different as we are, has tried our best to uphold the values that John McCain and Mitt Romney believed in no less than I did.

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…

The success of this experiment was never a given.

Never talks that way when they are in the same room.