White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs says President Obama will “take the next several weeks to review our strategy” in Afghanistan.

Where’s “the fierce urgency of now” when you need it?

Mr. President, sending additional troops to Afghanistan is a hard call, and you shouldn’t rush into it. But the situation doesn’t remain in stasis while you’re reviewing the options. If the situation is indeed deteriorating, then the outcome will be determined by not just by the arrival of additional troops but when those troops arrive.

I have this nagging fear that the paralysis of analysis will endure just long enough for the president to determine that it’s too late for additional troops to make a difference.

UPDATE: The man who took “seven seconds” to decide to endorse Arlen Specter in a Democratic primary needs at least two months to decide whether or not he agrees with the assessment and requests of the man he appointed to win the war in Afghanistan.

ANOTHER UPDATE: I’d love to be proven wrong, but I have a feeling this tells us where Obama’s going to come down on this issue. It doesn’t take more than a month of discussions to reach the conclusion, “General, you’re asking for a lot, but after reviewing the options, I concur. Let’s send more troops.”

It does take more than a month to come up with a good excuse to not follow the advice of the man whom you assigned to handle this task, and/or come up with some sort of “compromise” solution designed to hide the fact that you’re rejecting the general’s requests.