David Gergen actually said...

Yes, it's a double standard.

What the president said was, 'No, I'm not going to do that. It's too open ended. The country won't pay a -- spend a trillion dollars in Afgh...

But very importantly for him and it has emerged now on Capitol Hill, that it looks like the Congress will support him, a majority will suppo...

The public won't sustain, won't support an open-ended war and this worked out to be a logical time to begin the drawdown.