One more for the list?

D.C.-based research analyst, blogger, and former McCain campaign advisor David Adesnik writes: Thank you for bringing accountability to the predictions game. May I suggest, however, that you passed over one of the most strategically significant predictions falsified in 2008? In early 2007, Barack Obama stated clearly, "I am not persuaded that 20,000 additional troops in ...

By , a former associate editor at Foreign Policy.

D.C.-based research analyst, blogger, and former McCain campaign advisor David Adesnik writes:

D.C.-based research analyst, blogger, and former McCain campaign advisor David Adesnik writes:

Thank you for bringing accountability to the predictions game. May I suggest, however, that you passed over one of the most strategically significant predictions falsified in 2008? In early 2007, Barack Obama stated clearly, "I am not persuaded that 20,000 additional troops in Iraq is going to solve the sectarian violence there; in fact, I think it’ll do the reverse." This September, Sen. Obama acknowledged that the surge "succeeded beyond our wildest dreams." Thankfully, the president-elect’s decision to keep Robert Gates as his Secretary of Defense suggests that he has learned from his mistake.

Joshua Keating was an associate editor at Foreign Policy. Twitter: @joshuakeating

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