re: #103 allegro

I suspect you give him too much credit. I have little doubt he’s just thrilled with the outcome cuz it makes him feel like such a big influential dude, but I imagine his motivation was simply to get attention. It worked for him last Sept and he wanted another 15 minutes.

Actually, no — he absolutely did know this was a likely result. He was warned about it by the Secretary of Defense. General Petraeus made a statement about it too.

He did know what would happen, and he got exactly what he wanted.