Obama met with general McChrystal in Copenhagen today, evidently to assuage the public’s discomfort brought on by the 60 Minutes interview in which McChrystal said he’d only spoken with the president once.

Here’s a little personal advice for Obama: you need to seem like you know what you’re doing.  If you immediately respond to complaints about how you’re handling Afghanistan, it looks like you either had no idea what you were doing in the first place (in this case, true) or you are treating a war as just another issue that needs to be handled with political damage control (probably also true).

If you really had a reason, like wanting to use the chain of command, for not meeting with your general on the ground, then defend that!  The campaign has been over for a while.  It’s time to start making decisions and standing by them.  The Akmadinna-jihads of the world are waiting for you to slip up, and it looks like they wont have to wait long.