Above is a commercial from the advocacy group Vets for Freedom urging Barack Obama to go to Iraq, see for himself what's happening there and meet with David Petraeus. Go ahead, watch the spot - I'll wait. We all know this idea will have absolutely zero interest for Senator Obama. If there's one thing we've learned about Obama in the past few weeks, he likes his narratives clean and simple. Once he's settled on one, he won't allow the actual facts to confuse him. For example, somewhere somehow Barack Obama decided that the Cuban Missile Crisis provided an object lesson on the salubrious effects of negotiating with our malefactors. Even though the actual facts of the Cuban Missile Crisis and the disastrous Kennedy/Khrushchev Vienna conference that preceded it prove the precise opposite, Obama has determinedly hewed to the comforting narrative he dreamed up in his ignorance. Isn't it ironic? The left has come to champion a candidate who is as dogmatic and close-minded as they've always accused George W. Bush of being.