October was the deadliest month of the war for U.S. forces since the 2001 invasion to oust the Taliban. Obama stated: "I will never rush the solemn decision of sending you into harm's way."
Obama has been in office for just over nine months; he has already hit the golf links as much as Bush did in two years and ten months, according to CBS' Mark Knoller, an unofficial statistician of the White House. Also, in about nine months,
Obama has already attended more than two dozen Democratic fund raising events, while Bush did only six in his first year in office, according to Knoller.
The Noble Peace Prize winner sent 17,000 troops on 17 January; 4,000 trainer troops thereafter, and most recently, deployed at least 14,000 troops.
A foreign service officer and former Marine captain resigned stating he no longer knows why his nation is fighting.
In a move that has sent ripples all the way to the White House, Matthew Hoh, became the first U.S. official known to resign in protest over the Afghan war, which he had come to believe simply fueled the insurgency. He wrote a four-page letter questioning the current strategy.
