David Gergen actually said...

The president can now have a good-cop/bad-cop routine with the Maliki government.

I think that the Democrats, the growling that they're doing against the war, does -- it puts pressure on the White House.

General Petraeus is on a different time scale. He probably does need more time.

But, when you go after a fly with a sledgehammer, you can get the fly, but you often cause a lot of ruckus.