Why is Afghanistan Obama's Taboo Subject?

For all these reasons, and perhaps others, President Obama has largely shirked the traditional commander in chief duty of mobilizing political and public support for the wars he is leading. In contrast with President Bush, who clearly believed in the wars he led and sought every opportunity to try to rally the public to the war cause, President Obama seems far more ambivalent about some of his war duties. MORE

Observation - Who wants to be associated with a prodigious example of abject failure?