Well, unsurprisingly I don't see it that way.  I have been watching pretty closely, as have you, and it is interesting how we both feel our respective positions are reinforced by the same outcomes.  My litmus test for Obama's foreign policy has been his dealing with issues relating to Israel, and AIPAC, and I condone some of his careful positioning there.  The same applies to Iraq, but even the bill he authored early last year had caveats on the subject of deference to military opinion.  The difference is that military opinion in an Obama administration would be based on a mission of ending the war, not continuing it.

Obama's position on Afghanistan has been consistent and, from my perspective, completely vindicated by the events of the last year, surge or no surge.