if you listen to the news you will hear about a hopeless ampaign to win the unwinnable. hat is if you hear about it is all -- at all. the american people know two things. they know that the war is going badly, and they know that their neighbors oppose us being there. however, i am sure you have heard it that, just because i know it of it doesn't make it so. neither polls, nor the press paint the full picture. they never tell the full story. that story is a hopeful one. not blindly so, but hopeful nonetheless. traditionally it is right and proper that these stories come from the commander-in-chief. he has talked about afghanistan only a handful of times during his presidency. each time, president obama has raised his run for the exits, or pitied our wounded, instead of lauding the compliments of our troops, and the importance of the mission they were given to fight. so the president of the united states will not give the speech, so i will. in 2001 after the u.s. -- worst attack since pearl harbor about we invaded afghanistan. the very act of toppling the taliban regime wa