OK, here's how you lay the groundwork for a set up. The issue? Prez Obama's promise to get the US out of Iraq. The set up? Preparing in advance who to blame if he doesn't deliver.
You see, it cannot be Obama's fault, so we have to find someone else to blame. Who you ask? The military leadership, of course! This is how it begins...
Are Obama's Generals Plotting to Undermine his Exit Strategy for Iraq? Please note the editorializing in the headline. It says "plotting." Think about that for a moment. It doesn't say "questioning" it uses a more sinister word. And then we see the word "undermine." That is just a stepping stone to the word they will use next: "treason."
They are so obvious, but most people won't notice because, as Mark Heard observed:
Running from a world that they will never understand
The masses ride their passions with the throttle in their hands
Nobody knows
What is waiting around the bend