I'm curious what else Obama or McCain may do, in Obama's case for a cynical objective that doesn't suffer from the tarnish of your constant Iraq-, Bush-, and now McCain-bashing. (Obama is likely, along with other Democrats, to go beyond reasonable reform and truly gut the military to pay for vote-buying social spending programs.)

Will either man take troops out of Iraq and put them in Afghanistan? (Obama is more likely to bring them home instead.) What about a broader change to our overseas military deployments, such as removing our troops from Europe (no, McCain is not likely to send huge additional numbers there to tweak Bruno, though that's what Bruno is asking for)? What about removing them from South Korea, too, as well as from Okinawa?

In fact, a cost-cutting rationalization of the first order, even after increased expenditures are made specifically there, involves relocating our Asian forces to Guam and even rotating more troops and other assets there for training as well as stationing.

http://www.nwc.navy.mil/press/newportpapers/documents/...

Either man should also pursue current problems with the Army that not only include underfunding and questionable future strategy and planning, but contracting.

http://www.acq.osd.mil/dpap/contingency/reports/docs/g...

And how will we direct the future of our military, and _learning_lessons_ from our failures as well as successes in Iraq as well as with our overall military's future.

http://www.opinionjournal.com/extra/?id=110004289

armedservices.house.gov/pdfs/FC071807/Kagan_Testimony071807.pdf

_That_, and similar things like that, related to troop withdrawals and relocations and how they involve our military overall, are what ought to be “triggered” by (sane) thought about the Iraq deal or the name, “Iraq.” I actually hope either man begins or has begun thinking about these things.

Take this with McCain's “counting malfunction” and I'd say Obama has had himself a pretty good day.