Iraq agreement undermines Obama, not McCain

A number of people are saying that the new security agreement Bush has struck with Iraq undermines McCain because it agrees to a timetable for US troops to leave. Quite the contrary, in my view. It undermines Obama because it takes the war off the table as an issue. If Obama had anything going for him on the foreign policy side it was the Iraq war. Now, that's off the table and war with Russia (and Iran and Syria and ...) is on the table. McCain wins hands down on those issues, not because he is right but because Americans love belligerence, particularly if its a war we haven't lost yet.