With Press Secretary Gibbs attacking Cheney re Bush administration's supposed dropping of ball in Afghanistan does that then indicate that Obama will be taking McChrystal's advice and commit to undropping the ball? Or does it mean they will be forging an opposing or alternative strategy which they will defend by saying Bush mismanagement left them with few options? Given the continuing delay in rolling out a decision hard to believe it's anything but the latter - though possibly Gibbs, in effort to fill dithering void, simply said too much.
I continue to believe Obama's sole purpose here is to look like his campaign rhetoric wasn't simply campaign rhetoric and that he's not the one who lost Afghanistan if indeed he ends up losing Afghanistan, both of which could conceivably doom his chances in 2012. In other words, everything Obama has said and done or will say and do regarding Afghanistan, and Iraq for that matter, has and will continue to be all about serving limited domestic political ends.
What will be curious to see, among other things, is if the military leadership see Obama and his actions or lack thereof in the same light I do, how will they respond? In this regard, I wonder if Gates, a conservative, was acting as a true public servant when he chose to stay on and serve a very liberal president? Maybe he saw what was coming and realized that without a reasonable counterweight operating in the oval office bad things could happen.
