Barack Obama talks about Iraq in his “I will sweet-talk Iran into doing all the things we want” interview with the New York Times today. It really is silly. His residual counterterrorism force might be based outside Iraq. So we somehow are going to be able to keep al Qaeda from infiltrating neighborhoods in Baghdad and elsewhere . . . from Kuwait. And our trainers, even if he allows them to train Iraqi forces (which is up in the air), will not be allowed to go on combat missions with Iraqi forces. That will probably cripple the training mission. This is the plan of a guy who has sat around a table in Washington with some of the least tough-minded and realistic former Clinton advisers and scratched out on a yellow pad proposals that have absolutely nothing to do with reality in Iraq. He allows that he might send troops back into Iraq in the event of genocidal attacks. Hello? Does he not realize that this is a country in the midst of a civil war that has only been cooled off by the application of American combat power? Obama says, in an admirably open-minded statement, that he will take the views of the military commanders “under consideration.” He should probably talk to some of them now so they can tell him how daft and dangerous his plan is.