The Issue Is Not McChrystal. The Issue Is The War.

The one option president Obama never contemplated in reviewing the horrendous Af-Pak inheritance bequeathed by Bush and Cheney was ending the war. This was bizarre since his candidacy would never have occurred without the ill-judged, dreadfully managed and ultimately hopeless wars of occupation and attrition in Iraq and Afghanistan waged by his predecessors. And yet Obama, cautious as ever, ruled real withdrawal out from the get-go. Maybe the risk was too great of a terror attack at home...