Obama keen to get out as soon as possible. Afghanistan is not Iraq, US officials have been fond of saying from the first days of Barack Obama\'s presidency. The difference, they said, was that one war Obama inherited, in Afghanistan, was worth fighting while the other, in Iraq, was best ended as quickly as possible. Now, Afghanistan has turned into Iraq: an inconclusive slog in which the United States cannot always tell enemy from friend. And like Iraq, Obama has concluded that Afghanistan is best put to rest. Just as he patterned his troop \"surge\" in Afghanistan on a successful military strategy in Iraq, now Obama is planning his withdrawal from Afghanistan on the Iraq template as well. From: Gulfnews