Everybody has an opinion after President Obama announced in a prime time address Wednesday night that he will withdraw 10,000 troops from Afghanistan by the end of this year. The remaining 20,000 troops from the 2009 “surge” of forces would leave by next summer, amounting to about a third of the 100,000 troops now in the country.

Our favorite bit of analysis immediately after the speech came from Lawrence Wilkerson, former aide to Secretary of State Colin Powell, on Keith Olbermann’s Countdown on Current TV. If there’s a clip available we’ll post it – but essentially Wilkerson doesn’t believe the U.S. will be out of Afghanistan or Iraq in 10 years time, much less three as is supposed to be the case.

In the meantime, we bring you the thoughts of Florida’s two U.S. Senators. First, Democrat Bill Nelson: