Obama's Foreign Trip

The papers have been full of laudatory articles about Barack Obama's trip abroad so I will not belabor the issue other than to say that the diplomatic success he has displayed makes it even more crucial that he is elected President in November. What does concern me is John McCain's criticism of Barack Obama for not supporting the surge. Could there be a more blatant case of selective amnesia ? Was Senator Obama not one of the lone voices of reason opposing the Iraq War from the outset? It is McCain and George Bush who should be begging the nation for forgiveness. The other troubling part of McCain's comments is that they obscure the fact that Iraq remains a dangerous place and without political reconciliation. If the measure for success is simply quelling violence to 2006 levels (years after we were supposed to have left Iraq) then we truly are in a sorry state of affairs.