Simpleton, he ended one and has engineered a finite date to a pull out for the other and  all of that  against serious resistance from hawks like McCain who wanted 50K troops remaining permanently in Iraq and no timeline for Afghanistan.

Further, you do not pull out from a battle field overnight. Maybe that is an understanding he has come to realize in the presidency and not the easy slogans one gets from candidates on a campaign trail.

OK, so what happened to Gitmo.  Either he lied or had no clue of what he was talking about.  Which is it?

Check the congressional records. A supermax is ready and waiting except congressional action blocked a transfer of prisoners to the mainland.

I hear there will be pressure  on those nations refusing to accept their citizens. He recently appointed a high powered attorney to do everything legal to reduce the numbers of people held and to close the place down. How far he will get with the republicans is left to be seen.

That was his exit excuse.  Very welcome, very convenient.

It is not an exit or an excuse. It is a fact.

Ok, what actions have been even attempted on the Palestinian issue!!

Is this your ploy..uncover every rock and look for a toad? Obama has little option with Palestine as long as the American people delude themselves to the belief that Israelis is gods chosen people. Palestine languishes on the delusions of god generated fiction.

It is Samaria and Judea, home of the patriarchs and resting place of Rachel. It is more a religious conundrum than a rational expression to facilitate the needs of a people.

Plus the Arab Muslims do not help with their silly rhetoric. Obama cannot unmake god deluded impediments on his own. That needs time to unravel itself.

Israel cannot exist as a Jewish state without becoming a religious despotic state. It has to realize that somehow and you or I or Obama cannot make that happen.