Today, In Obama News

Obama is working on clarifying plans for closing the detention center at Guantanamo Bay, which he now says could take up to a year to finish.  

At the same time, his team is reassessing their Afghanistan strategy, saying the additional 30,000 troops they plan to send in will be more of an attempt to "buy time" to create a more concrete strategy than a complete turn-around of the situation.  

Some officials have written off the idea of a "stable, democratic Afghanistan" as entirely unrealistic, and are ready to make concessions and compromises in their final strategy.