“How can you run an effective strategy for the war with a divided government?” asked Seymour Hersh, a previous critic of the Bush Administration and the Iraq war in a series of articles published in the New Yorker. “What we need now is unity. And withdrawing troops would be a disaster. The Democrats were flat out wrong.”
Now that his party has regained power, Hersh is free to be as 'critical' as he wants of Democrats without cause for concern. He's personally delivering the message to all his drones that they should 'stay the course' of indecision and ambiguity on Iraq until he gets back to them.