Looked accurate - hence the gloom
Imagine.. having gathered at Camp David, about the closest you could get to a ~ Brain Trust, for baby-back ribs and a full-scale reappraisal of just Everything -- all to be presented to The Chief, discussed etc.
Who then flies off, just as it starts
-- for a spur/moment Putin-eyeball-type folksy appraisal of the new guy with the furrin epaulets. Returns toward the end of the 'conference', during which: not a thing got changed.
I sorta remembered, 'Clear, Hold, Build' -- but was unaware of Condoleezza's primal role in noticing it's rarity among all those 3-month-trial strategies (it actually worked, when staffed.) 'Course we know how that turned out, no personnel etc. and the tacit Decider letting his minions duel in the meeja arena.
-- what was Doonesbury's symbol for Shrub, again?
(Ah yes, that {*} - with frazzled remnants of a shako)
Bummer - from A to about Y\ufffd ?
and pathetic and, We Own It.
Postlude:
"..may be Act III of V?"
".. but it will be messy."
<music fade to dirge>