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This was political. There are several highly qualified and respected Generals (General Mattis anyone?) that could step up into command in AFG and leave the Theater Commander in his job overseeing AFG AND IRAQ. So now one of Petraeus' former subordinates now becomes his boss and probably with less clout to argue, plan, and scrounge for the two wars in that theatre.
Perhaps Gen. Petraeus will be doing BOTH jobs in which case he may not be able to do either very well.
Nahhh, this is political. This is an effort to reach for some street cred with a name the general public know versus ones they don't know.
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