Jonah, that is one brutal sentence by David Gergen:

It isn’t popular to say right now but there is growing reason to question whether this is the wisest course…

He’s not saying to Obama this isn’t the wisest course.

He’s not yet prepared to say he’s questioning whether this is the wisest course.

But he is saying that reason to question whether this is the wisest course is growing, and at some point may have grown to a point at which he will actually question whether this is the wisest course. Which could conceivably lead him to conclude that no, it isn’t.

You know, people are so tired of this attack-dog politics. If he’d said “It isn’t popular to say right now but there is some concern that there might be a potential argument to be made which could raise the possibility of growing reason to question whether this is the wisest course”, I’d be with him.

But he goes too far.