OBAMA’S AFGHAN WAR SPEECH: Why he’s giving it and what it means. “Obama’s latest speech will be directed solely at Americans, who have begun registering impatience with the war, especially since Obama joined another one in Libya in March that he said would last days, not weeks, and has now gone on for months. . . . Set aside losing, Americans even hate not winning. Stalemates don’t sell in American politics, one of Obama’s growing problems with whatever he’s calling the non-hostile, kinetic, friendly bomb-dropping action on Libya.”