David Gergen actually said...

"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 Afghanistan. We're going to have to start pulling the plug.'"

"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 support him financially so it will give him permission to go ahea..."

"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."

"I think it's relatively clear he has not achieved the unity in the country that he is seeking that he spoke of last night. People are still, you know, there's a lot of skepticism about it."