But choosing Petraeus means reupping with a fatally flawed policy, not revamping it.
This focus reveals a desperate drive to fit public sentiment -- as President Bush once fit intelligence -- around a flawed policy.
Gemma Tumelty, president of the National Union of Students, said the government had "rushed through" the "deeply flawed policy".
Andrew Kelly, director of the Centre on Higher Education Reform, called Mr Sanders' plan to oust American college tuition "a great talking point, but… flawed policy".
Mandatory minimum sentencing — in which the legislature sets a floor below which a judge cannot set the sentence — is a fatally flawed policy.
Now, Mr. Kadyrov's grip on Chechnya looks far weaker, leaving Moscow with a choice about whether to stick with a deeply flawed policy or risk a change of course.
Andrew Lansley's recent announcement that the government is embarking on a two-month "period of listening" about its NHS reform plans has been seen by some as a U-turn over a deeply flawed policy.
The judge gave the administration a way out of a deeply flawed policy that will worsen the nation's energy problems while weakening the economy and increasing the risk of a double-dip recession.
It's a deeply flawed policy that needs to be reversed.
Trump could undo this flawed policy, if he listens to sane minds in his cabinets like Jim Mattis.
The reactionary police state spawned by the counterculture continues to double down on an obviously flawed policy of prohibition and mind control at any cost.
