Forget it.
God help us if he puts a deadline on the war
Think out of the box.
With the surge, we go in there and stomp the remaining Taliban and Al Qaeda into a bloody mud. And, if by chance, they don't all die, we can bomb them with impunity at our whim from afar without troups on the ground being killed. Tell me, what is an Afghanistan pre-911 compared to Afghanistan 2011+ ?
An open ended commitment is nothing more than a way to save face.