"All the king's horses and all the king's men ..."

Is this where the cookie begins to crumble?

This from the George Stephonopolous (boy the spell check will have fun with that name) Sunday morning show on ABC, "This Week", dateline 10/11/09:

“I don’t know how you put somebody in, who is as 'cracker jack' as General McChrystal who gives the president very solid recommendations and not take those recommendations if you are not going to pull out. If you do not want to take the recommendations then you put your people in such jeopardy.”
-Diane Feinstein (D) CA

George later asked four-star retired General Jack Keane if he were in a similar position to McChrystal and the President rejected his recommendation for more troops, would he resign? Keane said, “Probably, yes. Under those circumstances, yes.”

I explained to Jambo just the other day that in my estimation all of these "war councils" Obama has been convening were nothing more than brainstorming sessions to figure out just how they will sell Obama's refusal to "surge" in Afghanistan, that the decision he purports to be mulling has already been made, and it's "no." If my hunch is right Feinstein et al may be sending a very public "wait a minute bub, we (Democrats) own the outcome now" message to the president. And even more disturbing this means that whatever the case Obama is to the Left of Diane Feinstein on National Security matters ... and how small a sliver of space to occupy is that?!