One thing that will be amusing is watching Obama and Gates and Petraeus do exactly what Bush and Gates and Petraeus would have done in Iraq, and liberals calling it brilliant.

Assume we leave time travel out of this, and you might realize that I'm talking about our future actions in Iraq.

We all have a pretty good idea of what a theoretical Bush/Gates/Petraeus strategy for Iraq would have been over the next four years. It's not like they haven't laid out post-surge strategy for well over a year. McCain probably would have done the same thing.

So far (it could change), it looks like Obama is going to do pretty much the same things in Iraq that a Republican president would have done.

Got it?