Just to remind Democratic candidates: like Wayne Gretzky said, you have to skate to where the puck will be. The situation in Iraq in the late fall, when the voters will be wooed and won by the one will then be the victor in the first quarter of 08, will not be what it is today. It will be, probably and dreadfully, much more problematic than today. So what will you say? The key tests are: do you favor residual force deployment; do you see any way to revive a multi-state or two-state approach for Palestine; do you favor attacks on Iran; will you support the Turks or the Kurds, if it came to that choice; will you partition Iraq. There may be some more, but this suffices: I don't believe anyone will be able to avoid answering these questions in the fall; this summer, yes, but not in the fall, when the voters have to be closed.

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