Barack Obama's opponents seem to love to laugh at his naive ideas on foreign policy -- and then they adopt them.

When Obama suggested the United States must be willing to attack al Qaeda forces in Pakistan, President Bush, Hillary Clinton and John McCain all explained this showed Obama is too naive and inexperienced to be commander-in-chief. Then, the United States attacked al-Qaeda forces in Pakistan

When Obama called for direct negotiations with Iran, his Republican opponents couldn't wait to explain that such negotiations would be not only futile but actually damaging to American interests.  This week, an undersecretary of state is negotiating directly with Iran.

Whe Obama said we should take American troops out of Iraq and deploy them to Afghanistant, his opponents laughed at his inability to understand that Iraq is the central battle in the war on terror. This week, the nation's military leaders said we might take troops out of Iraq and deploy them to Afghanistan.

Obama's ideas may be naive and they may be wrong. But as far as the folks running the country are concerned, they were prescient.