[AmericanInTokyo]

He can certainly try, but the deck will be stacked against him with these variables, if in place:

further decay of US military position in nation-building exercise in Iraq/continued US media harping and melodrama/American impatience, short-termed vision and only supporting quick, short term dramatic victories, not long-drawn out commitments

[VRWC_minion]

The current problems in Iraq will be mostly forgotten by then just as the similar problems and complaints about Afghanistan have been forgotten.