What the hell kind of plan is this?

Here is one of Petraeus's slides. A brilliant strategy! (note the multiple prominent question marks):



Yet another underpants gnome plan.

Here's the previous nonsense chart from the old "stand up/stand down" strategy for Iraq, which is no longer operative:



Stage three is profit!



A blogger has a better chart here.

Also, Slate actually managed a decent article on the President's speech last night.