God knows on the liberal boards I read there are plenty of snarks like this. They're easier to make than to do any real analysis. But then, for most of them, this was never about the war in the first place.

There were distinct strategies in this war all the way along. Most of them had to be altered on the fly as the situation changed. You can certainly have a reasonable discussion on whether they were the right ones, and what might have worked better up front, and in some issues you would be right. But this is no different than any other war in our history, something that seems to elude a lot of people.

The links I posted show that there is a current plan of action, and Petraeus has a good record on this kind of thing.

Given an admiral being put in charge at CENTCOM, something I was wondering about, I'm beginning to believe we are going to crack down on the support lines from Syria and Iran. About time, too.