I will say this, no one should be surprised by this decision, President Obama made it very clear during his election campaign that he was going to focus on Afghanistan (Like we should have been, instead of diverting our resources six/seven years ago into Iraq). He has kept his promise (so far) in ending our campaign in Iraq.
As for peace, History has shown us that we move in cycles, and with those cycles I have learned that we will never have the idealistic peace that some of us hope for.
-Julian Alexander