for me right now as a strategist because i don t see us effecting the kind of cooperative agreement with iran that we need to do where our interests are coincidental despite the nuclear program and all that. we need to have an agreement with iran so that when we do leave and go back over the horizon, the real power in the persian gulf, iran, is operating at least at times and on major issues the same way we re operating, that is to say, to keep it peaceful and stable. colonel lawrence wilkerson, former chief of staff to former secretary of state colin powell, now at the college of william and mary. great thanks for your time. thanks, keith. for the political let s turn to eugene robinson, associate editor, pulitzer prize-winning columnist at the washington post. gene-w good evening. good evening to you, keith. was this speech all about iraq and afghanistan or about putting a button on those issues for the remainder of the campaign season? he began saying that he used a ve