Doing so will only strengthen Iran
(NEWSER) - In tonight's speech on the end of combat operations in Iraq, Barack Obama has a chance to show that he’s finally learned something about geostrategy. “Of course, if he did, it would mean abandoning much of what he advocated during his election campaign,” writes John Bolton for the Daily Beast . Critics of the war in Iraq, Bolton explains, have often complained that Bush picked the "wrong target," that Iran was the real threat, and that the invasion of Iraq and toppling of Saddam Hussein only served to strengthen it. More»