Yes, he did that, but it took him the better part of a year to actually do anything in Afghanistan. It’s an on-the-job training program for someone who couldn’t sell watermelons if you gave him the state troopers to flag down traffic. ;’)
Not true. Obama began keeping his Afghan promise to escalate right out the box. The initial Obama surge in Afghanistan begin in February 2009. Obama kept his foreign policy promises. The world policers have thoroughly dominanted both parties for decades. When it comes to foreign policy, ain't a dime's worth of difference between the two wings of the Demopublican bird of prey.