A Devastating and Depressing Portrait of Obama

Pete Wehner has some insight on what we've learned about Bob Woodward's book. He starts with this section from the Washington Post:

Obama rejected the military’s request for 40,000 troops as part of an expansive mission that had no foreseeable end. “I’m not doing 10 years,” he told Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton at a meeting on Oct. 26, 2009. “I’m not doing long-term nation-building. I am not spending a trillion dollars.” … At one strategy session, the president waved a memo from the Office of Management and Budget, which put a price tag of $889 billion over 10 years on the military’s open-ended approach.

To this Pete says:

So we finally found the one institution where Barack Obama is frugal and interested in cost-savings: the military during time of war.

Read the rest here.