:’) I was deliberately vague on the date of the first critical editorial; also, I do wonder whether there will ever be *any* which are critical, other than the Marxist bloggers’ that are currently critical of their Sock Puppet hero because he plans to keep Gates and bring Hillary into State.
I picked Pakistan as well, because it’s riven by factions, and at least one of those factions is aligned with al-Qaeda, plus they have a history of coup d’etat, have nukes, a permanent hostility toward India, longstanding ties with China, longstanding ties with Islamofascists, is an ethnic mishmash, has Iran for a nextdoor neighbor, has Afghanistan for a nextdoor neighbor...
Hey, on second thought, what could *possibly* go wrong in Pakistan? ;’)
The Sock Puppet did mention that he would, if elected, basically intervene in Pakistan, but A) he lies about practically everything, B) he’s cunning and nasty but not too bright, and C) he’s keeping Gates which indicate few changes in the WOT strategy.
Well, that’s what I expect the first critical editorial to be - Obama won’t be able to get the troops out of Iraq in a couple months, and then the critical editorial writer will say if Obama hadn’t tried to ‘pander’ to the moderates/eeeevil right-wingers by keeping Secretary Gates around, then everything in Iraq would be ponies and butterflies and rainbows.