I seriously doubt that Obama has a sense of the significance of Iraq geo-strategically: because of where it is on the map.

I don’t think Obama thinks in terms of maps at all. That would require tempering his grand overarching declarations to fit facts on the ground, to fit the ground itself.

I doubt that Obama has thought his way to any position. He has been imprinted with the Left’s givens, one of which is that since America is always wrong, even when it has been attacked, it behooves America to reverse its evil invasion of Iraq, apologizing all the way.

And that’s what a Barak Obama administration will do.