As a prosecutor, I was impressed with Bill O’Reilly’s interview of Obama relative to the surge.  To put it bluntly, he put Obama in a box. The point of a good cross-examination is to lead the witness somewhere without the witness realizing where they are headed.  This is done through a number of irrefutable leading questions that are easily answered.  O’Reilly did this with Obama by starting out by asking if there was a war on terror. Obama responded in the affirmative.  The next question was just as crucial, but seemed innocent enough, namely identify the enemies.  Obama followed with Al Qaeda, terror cells, and radical Islam coupled with a vague commitment to hunt these terrorists down and eliminate them.  O’Reilly then did an extraordinary thing, but necessary for the effectiveness of the examination, he conceded that the initial invasion of Iraq was a mistake, but then asked whether the surge was a success and...(Read Full Post)