The time limit is what bothers me most about this. This indicates to the enemy that we are not really serious. Do the terrorists pledge Jihad, but if they don’t get what they want in three years, they’ll just quit and go home? Of course not! They are serious about their cause. When we got into WWII, did we pledge to defeat Japan and Germany, but if we didn’t finish the job in three years, we’d quit fighting and go home?
You cannot fight a war on a timeline and expect to win. This just indicates that this is another example where we’ll be putting our troops in harm’s way in a conflct where we are not going all out to win. I cannot support that.
“The time limit is what bothers me most about this.”
Me too. Unless it says something like: we will re-assess after 3 years.