You won’t likely hear broad opposition from the GOP to President Obama’s decision to replace General McChrystal with General Petraeus in Afghanistan. But they will continue to hammer the administration for having set a 2011 troop withdrawal date in that war, and criticize the civilian leadership in Afghanistan, particularly Ambassador Karl Eikenberry. In other words, McChrystal’s expected firing, and all the coy warnings that came with it, will ultimately change little about the politics of the Afghanistan war on the Hill.
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