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The Petraeus Performance

The opening day of the Petraeus performance went pretty much according to script. The somber general and the geeky ambassador were careful to promise not victory but the possibility of success, vaguely defined. And, of course, Petraeus warned of the "devastating consequences" of what he called a "premature drawdown."