My thoughts on the speech are up over at Care2, my other blog home.  An excerpt:

[Obama] laid out a clear strategy, refuted the key arguments against his approach, and reminded everyone of why this is a war we must fight.  Equally importantly, he served notice to both Kabul and Islamabad that Bush’s blank check strategy is over.  And he did not pull punches when it came to acknowledging both governments’ corruption and ineptitude. . .

Of course, the speech was the (relatively) easy part.  The much harder part — actually implementing the strategy as outlined, but also doing it successfully — will take years, and no matter how good Obama’s intentions, may ultimately fail.  This is now Obama’s war.  It doesn’t matter that Bush got us into it.  It only matters how (and when) the President manages to get us out.

You can read the whole thing here.

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