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I think the President is more attuned to the reality of the situation than Keegan, who's looking at this from the purely military perspective. While Keegan acknowledges the effects of unrelenting negative press and "losing middle America" almost forty years ago, I don't think he understands what's going on here the way Bush and Rove do. The center of gravity is in America's living rooms, not Hue or Baghdad. That battle has been lost.

I hope I'm wrong, but I read this change in the President's attitude as a reaction to the poll numbers and the projected loss of both houses.