Originally Posted by John Drake

Obama will do very well in Afghanistan, this will happen because he will actually be trying to do what he says he's trying to do instead of prolonging the war so as to make his cronies richer and trying to gain votes by giving the rightists a chance to beat their chests . He will use a carrot and stick instead of just the stick and this will work very well, as it in fact did in the early stages of the war before Bush remembered he was Republican.

It will also work in Iran.

The rightists, of course, will try everything they can to block this and seize on every setback, no matter how minor, to point out how all muslims are perdious murderers who can't be trusted and the best way to gain their trust and loyalty is to kill them all.