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Me too. I will follow it on this thread. It seems to me that there were three logical courses of action. 1) Give your field commander what he asked for immediately. 2) Replace the field commander if you do not have confidence in his abilities. 3) Pull out of Afghanistan altogether if you don't believe in the mission. How do you arrive at a watered down response, three months later? And why do you make such a production out of of the announcement that you are providing a watered down response? If I were president, and I had confidence in McChrystal, I would grant the request immediately and announce it in a routine press conference. If I took three months, and I was only sending three-quarters of what had been requested, I wouldn't make such a show of it. Its unseemly.