Another reason why I support Obama: he asks the right questions before making a big decision

From last weekend's New York Times article on how Obama came around to support a surge of troops in Afghanistan, our president asked the following strategic questions of our military and diplomatic experts:

...Unsatisfied, the president posed a series of questions:

* Does America need to defeat the Taliban to defeat Al Qaeda?
* Can a counterinsurgency strategy work in Afghanistan given the problems with its government?
* If the Taliban regained control of Afghanistan, would nuclear-armed Pakistan be next?

While I don't like the idea of the U.S. escalating another war, I trust this leader to make the right decision, using his discriminating and curious mind (as opposed to Bush rubber stamping the ideas of his three-headed neo conservative hydra, Cheney-Rumy-Wolfowitz). Check out the whole NYTimes article.