Obama now says he will call in the Joint Chiefs of Staff on his first day in office as President, and tell them to develop a plan for ending the war in Iraq in 16 months. This is a really stupid pronouncement, even if that is what he actually planned to do. The only way a war can be ended unilaterally is by surrendering. If you tell the enemy that all he has to do is hang on for 16 months, that encourages him. (The definition of treason is providing aid and comfort to the enemy, and that is basically what Obama's pronouncement is.) This sort of pronouncement puts American soldiers in peril because it provides the enemy an incentive to continue to fight in spite of his loses that would otherwise discourage to the point of surrender. Obama and the Democrats are determined to prevent a victory for the US and Bush in Iraq. If Obama is elected, and does announce surrender in Iraq, I hope the Joint Chiefs and the leaders in Iraq have the integrity to resign.