"He would later tell his White House aides that military leaders were 'really cooking this thing in the direction they wanted.'"
Though Obama was taken in by this Afghan War trickery in 2009 -- and he has gradually phased out key Bush holdovers such as Gates and Mullen -- he has still not seized decisive control over his own foreign policy, with another rival, Hillary Clinton as Secretary of State, and Petraeus now running CIA.
Obama may find that Petraeus and the neocons have more surprises for him ahead as they steer the intelligence analyses on Iran, the Afghan War and other Middle East policies more in their favored directions.
Cross-posted from Consortium News(Note: You can view every article as one long page if you sign up as an Advocate Member, or higher).
