Status Updates From Obama's Wars

"The vice president-elect believed that off-the-cuff conversations often yielded more insights than formal presentations. As he made the rounds with the troops, after asking the basic "How's it going?" he then slipped in a "What are we trying to do here?" Everyone - colonels, lieutenants, sergeants - gave a different answer... A more common answer from the front-line troops was, "I don't know.""