So he CHOSE 9/11 to do these two things in order to maximize SYMBOLISM:
He is trying to send the message loud and clear that WHAT WAS STARTED WE ARE NOW CONTENT TO BRING TO A CLOSE.
Honestly —would YOU want to be humping gear out in the field now..? KNOWING that you’re part of something that he essentially DOES NOT WANT...?
Remember those 4 Marines who got waxed the other day in Afgh cuz of no air support? Because of sensitivity and all that, because of those fuel trucks the other day?
THIS DOES **NOT** LOOK GOOD.
The whole Arab world (to say nothing of Jong Il) will construe this as weakness, and we will get WORSE treatment, not better treatment —just wait.
I cannot imagine anything more than this more sharply inducing Israel to strike Iran.
If they don’t do it NOW...? They simply never will, nope.