Tribesman, they're not talking about 'the troops.' Unless I'm mistaken, they're discussing the military leadership, and the issue at hand is not the quality of the plan, but the unwillingness of congress to commit itself. If they assign generals to accomplish a task and then block those generals' plans, they show either that they are determined to fail or that they don't trust their own appointees, either of which is discouraging.
But the issue is the quality of the plan isn't it , the administration was offered several plans , it chose a crap one (again) . Why should the senate or congress commit to it without thourough debate . A major issue in the mid-terms was sorting the mess out in Iraq , the plan does nothing of the sort and there is cross party support saying this ,though not in sufficent numbers from either side to resolve it yet .

But I must say the change in attitudes towards Casey is quite funny .