Despite Obama's assertions that Iraq is distracting from the fight in Afghanistan, this new report from the front lines emerges:

Missions by special forces and air strikes by unmanned drones have "decapitated" the Taliban and brought the war in Afghanistan to a "tipping point", the commander of British forces has said.

The new "precise, surgical" tactics have killed scores of insurgent leaders and made it extremely difficult for Pakistan-based Taliban leaders to prosecute the campaign, according to Brig Mark Carleton-Smith.

Obama said the surge wouldn't reduce violence, and yet it has. He said we wouldn't start winning in Afghanistan until we left Iraq, and yet we are. So what exactly has he been right about?