Interesting analysis. Wht would the Chinese see as “going well” vs “going badly”? I have a feeling it’s not the same thing as the White House would see it as, and certainly not as an athlete/fan.

RE: Wretchard’s comment about America’s next administration, “Whether it holds up or folds up is up to them” I’m quite confident that once Obama has won White House (if he’s allowed to do so), he will the very next day pirouette back to “retreat immediately” mode and withdraw American troops from Iraq. He may even go so far as to station them in Okinawa, per advice from his fellow Democrats.

Obama is trying good old Muslim taqqiya now, lying and saying that he’s rethinking his stance on withdrawal, but I really believe that his personal moral imperative (and that of his wife, Michella deVille) is the progressive, liberal cowardly way of opportunism and flight.