When Senator Obama goes into “if only” and “we could have”, I bristle. Back in 2002, leftists could have proposed to vastly increase the size of our military, rebuild our infrastructure, and push our economy toward battery-powered cars instead making it a choice between liberating Iraq and sitting on our hands. But they didn’t. And now we are in Iraq partly because the opposition didn’t come up with any better counterargument back in 2002. So, we now hear talk like, “If only we hadn’t invaded Iraq, we could have [fill in the blank]…” This just annoys me because the “anti-war” activists didn’t point out what could have been accomplished other than invade Iraq.

Why didn’t Barack Obama recommend invading Pakistan in 2002? Well? Why didn’t he?