Obama's Definition Of Success In Iraq

"(If) our criteria is a messy, sloppy status quo, but there’s not huge outbreaks of violence, there’s still corruption but the country is struggling along, but it’s not a threat to its neighbors and it’s not an al Qaeda base, that seems to me an achievable goal within a measured time frame," said Barack Obama on April 8th during the Petraeus hearing with Senate Foreign Relations Committee.

Sounded like a messy, sloppy, struggling answer to this observer...