I will grant I was worried about that, and was wrong.
When he decided to keep Gates at the end of November, I figured things were looking up. Obama seems to basically be going with the status quo. As I've said, he really isn't that interested in foreign policy.
I'm still worried about what he'll do in Afghanistan, which needs new policies and not just a continuation of ones in place, and I don't think Obama will come up with good ones. I hope he mostly stays out of it and listen to his generals.
Let's keep something clear--I think a very slow conditions-based withdrawal in Iraq, with the possibility of troops being stationed there in some capacity for a long time, is the right thing to do.
I'm just pointing out that for a lot of people, it wasn't a good idea until it was Obama's idea.