Obama: Hostage To Petraeus, Ctd

Was I too harsh? It behooves me, I think, to note that the way in which Obama facilitated this military dispatch was pitch-prefect: classy, presidential, resolute. It also behooves me to note that many things can happen in war and politics and that if Petraeus is seen to manifestly fail in Afghanistan - and retrospectively to have failed to leave Iraq in one piece as well - then things might shift dramatically. One reader offers this meep-meep hypothesis:

Maybe the McChrystal fiasco was a...