Closing Gitmo won’t be meaningful unless we deal with every one of those prisoners in a fair and transparent fashion, and address the ongoing CIA kidnappings and secret prisons as well. I don’t think I’ve heard a plan about how the Obama administration intends to do this, but then I haven’t been looking into much.

Withdrawing from Iraq won’t be a win unless it becomes and somewhat stable nation, reasonably free of Iranian (and every other) influence, and with a minimum of ethnic cleansing and genocide. I suppose it would split up into three different countries – Sunni, Shia, and Kurd; is that “good” outcome? I dunno, what do we think about the breakup of Yugoslavia?