Uh, oh. General McCrystal didn’t get the memo explaining that Dear Leader and his team are theorists and do not appreciate any information based on reality.
Better take it all back, General, so that Dear Leader can continue to bask in the glow from his halo.
Reminds me of a joke... A soldier, an engineer, and a mathematician are staying at a hotel.
At midnight, the fire alarm goes off. The soldier jumps out of bed, throws open his door, and sees a fire in the ashtray across the hall. Seeing a firehose right next to it, the soldier grabs the hose and gives a full 30 second blast on the fire, absolutely obliterating the fire, the ashtray, and the carpets. But the fire's out, and the soldier goes back to bed.
At 2 AM, the fire alarm goes off. The engineer jumps out of bed, throws open his door, and sees a fire in the trash can down the hall. He also sees the fire hose, so he grabs the hose, does a few quick calculations about the size of the fire, the flow rate of the water, the water pressure, and opens the nozzle for exactly 1.94 seconds, whereby the last drop of water to reach the fire snuffs out the last glowing ember, leaving a pile of wet ash and a cloud of steam. The fire out, the engineer goes back to bed.
At 4 AM, the fire alarm goes off again. The mathematician jumps out of bed, throws open his door, and sees a fire on the courtesy phone table by the elevators. He sees the firehose just a few feet away. The mathematician thinks for a second, proclaims "A solution exists!" and goes back to bed.