So far, the Obama administration is proving to be one heck of an ally:

In interviews, several senior diplomats of countries now contributing to Afghanistan worried that the reopening of the strategic debate here would set off a race for the exits among NATO nations. “Our problem with Bush was that for seven years he never really examined a badly flawed strategy in Afghanistan,” a senior British official said, declining to be identified because of the delicacy of the issue in Britain. “Our problem with Obama is that he keeps questioning what we’re trying to accomplish.”