Leaving the decisions to BUSH has proven to be insanity.
whole nother debate there.
bottom line is that bush adn mccain act like Obama hates the military because he doesn't want to heed the advice of the military men.
Those military men - the commanders - are only advice givers. They're not the decision makers. If JFK had listened to them, WWIII would have occured, we would have shot down US planes and blamed Cuba, etc. (Operations Northwoods ring any bells?)
Bush acts like Obama is unpatriotic because he doesn't blindly follow everything the generals recommend.
The generals have a job - make and win wars. The CIC has a bigger job - manage wars while taking into consideration our national budget, foreign relations, etc. Patraeus has ZERo concern with the US economy, how Euro feels about us, etc. His expertise is the war in Iraq. He doesn't have any mindset of the bigger picture - the president does.