After six months of talking about his Afghanistan policy, Obama has to admit, both explicitly and tacitly, that he never had one.

President Obama is exploring alternatives to a major troop increase in Afghanistan, including a plan advocated by Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. to scale back American forces and focus more on rooting out Al Qaeda there and in Pakistan, officials said Tuesday.

The options under review are part of what administration officials described as a wholesale reconsideration of a strategy the president announced with fanfare just six months ago. Two new intelligence reports are being conducted to evaluate Afghanistan and Pakistan, officials said.

The charitable spin on this is that the policy is not working and that Obama presidentially refusing to stick his head in the sand, demanding instead a new policy.

The problem with this is that the now infamous leak by Obama pet general McChrystal was an unmistakeable sign that the administration had in fact decided to bury its head in the sand, leaving the general no choice but to force their hand with the highest level leak I've heard of in a decade.

The so-called Biden plan (Biden's name apparently being a euphemism for the most idiotic option being submitted on any issue...) was summarily rejected six months ago, but is now back on the table. The implication should be obvious--the administration is dealing with exactly the same information they had six months ago, and simply deferred any effective action.

In war, the only worse situation than indecisiveness is retreat.

Obama has once again, failed the test of leadership.