Today is the day. Now we wait for what Gen. David Petraeus described on Wednesday as two weeks of high-level internal strategy and resource debates to find out
“„As [Pentagon spokesman] Geoff Morrell indicated this week, it is an analytic document that lays out levels of risk associated with force structure and makes recommendations. Since it is based on an assessment that is still being reviewed by the administration, to suggest that it provides “no wiggle room” is both to misunderstand where we’re at in the process and to mischaracterize what General McChrystal feels is his proper relationship to national decision-making. As he told the New York Times, he welcomes alternative proposals for how to stabilize Afghanistan. ”This is the right kind of process, and the way I see duty. I have been given the opportunity to provide my inputs to the decision. Then it is my duty to execute that decision.”