i put a political framework on it, and i don t think anybody who is a supporter of president obama in fact, i don t think most republicans think that given most republicans think in it s not worth us being there, c are going to say, gee, this en president is really a bad guy because he had doubts about this strategy.tser the argument is if you have any doubts, why you would send men and women to die? that is the point of criticism. i think that all commanders in chief have to make difficult calls here. i think that the critics maybe k step a little bit too far in asking us to believe that, oh, l no, you can t do can t make e decision unless you believe you re going to have immediate success.si but just a correction on a point. it was president obama, karl, who said we re going to accelerate the deployment of the surge, and the record clearly shows that he did that, and his plan to say we re going to begin the drawdown in about 18 months, was okayed by everyone, in including b