re: #166 Fenway_Nation

Shoulda been made in August or September, sounds too much like he’s still campaigning and I’m not liking what I heard about a timetable.

That is all.

The months long delay was for purely political purposes.
The strategy was self evident months ago with the McChrystal recommendation.
Obama spent these months trying to figure out how to balance his leftist base with the reality of Afghanistan. it was all about how to present it. That was the bulk of the delay.
Meanwhile, if any remember, McChrystal gave a 12 month time frame for a possible failure back in August.