Foreign Policy' s Joshua Keating has written an interesting post identifying, in his opinion, the "top ten foreign policy gaffes from the campaign trail." Overall, it's pretty thin gruel. Keating's "gaffes" include Obama reading during Gen. Petraeus's congressional testimony in September - no big deal - John Edwards's opposition to the U.S.-Peru free trade agreement - which isn't a gaffe but a policy position - and Hillary Clinton's blurring the difference between Pakistan's parliamentary and presidential elections. As I say: thin gruel. Mike Huckabee appears twice on the list, once for admitting he hadn't heard about the latest National Intelligence Estimate on Iran, and another time for his post-Bhutto-assassination comment linking violence in Pakistan to the threat of cross-border terrorism in the United States. The mini-scandal over Huckabee's acknowledgment that he hadn't heard about the NIE on the day it came out always struck me as a Beltway story; so what if a guy spending every waking hour trying to convince Iowa Republicans to like him isn't as up on the news as is the army of Blackberry-toting campaign reporters? The story was typical of the media - fitting random "noise" into a pre-written musical composition. In this case, the composition was about Huckabee's foreign policy "inexperience." A gaffe is truly a "gaffe" when its reputation expands beyond the tiny bubble inhabited by the political community. I doubt you could find a dozen, or even half-a-dozen, caucus-goers in Iowa tonight who paid much attention to it. So far this campaign, I can identify one gaffe - Hillary Clinton's equivocation on driving licenses for illegal immigrants, which destroyed the myth of her "inevitability." Any others?