Sapping Troop Morale

How must our forward deployed forces on the ground in Afghanistan feel knowing that we are a.)talking to the very Taliban who are trying to kill them (and who have killed their comrades), and b.)that any gains made by their effort and sacrifice will be abandoned as Obama has now pledged that American combat forces will be out by 2014? If we are leaving then anyway, why not spare the lives that will be lost in the interim by bringing our personnel home now along with any Afghans who have helped us. I prefer to win, but I particularly despise blood spilled in vain.