Bringing the Troops Home

"We have brought home more than 90,000 troops since I took office," so announced Barack Obama in his weekly radio address. Should there not be a least one qualifier in that claim: namely,the number of troops and private contractors we have put in Afghanistan? And then there was this, "Like any sovereign, independent nation, Iraq is free to chart its own course". But is it capable of doing so? It has been months since their elections and they have yet to form a new government. And the attacks - suicide and other - continue.