by the military people to always hook the civilian leader into something that is going to drag them into a wider war. he seems to be a student of history, if not instinct here. he doesn't want to be captured by the people who are supposedly taking his orders. >> that's right. and i think right now, you really see that the december review is very likely now to be the -- be the first time that we get the -- that we start hearing about what the framework of what july 2011 really means. right now, july 2011 and that deadline means a lot of things to a lot of people. everybody seems to take what they want to hear from it, right? the military guys take from it, well, it is conditions based. well, some in the president's base and in the democratic party who don't want us to be there very long take it as, well, at least there is an end date. i think in december, we are now going to get a clearer picture of what july 2011 is. frankly, you can just -- tell from this book the president's instinct is that that july 2011