David Gergen actually said...

"I think it has been a very shrewd move."

"They have got to be more than a one-trick pony."

"But it does not solve their problem about having a message about where we grow from here, not only in Iraq, but in Iran and the Middle East, more generally."

"It is falling darn short of what the administration thought it was going to be, where we thought we were going to be, three years on."