The strongest talking point the right-wing punditocracy has been hammering since Obama hammered Romney in the third debate is that Romney passed the Commander-In-Chief test by having "command of the facts," as one of his spokespeople is right now saying on MSNBC, and that he "made no major mistakes," as The Weekly Standard has claimed. And yet, as cited by a number of folks, Romney blew an important fact regarding what he referred to as the #1 threat to American security. His claim that "Syria is Iran's only ally in the Arab world. It's their route to the sea." is so many kinds of wrong that there is no excuse for Democratic spokespeople not to be hammering this point all day. Debates are won in the 2-3 days that follow, not in the insta-polls. Iran and Syria do not share a border. Iran has two coasts. There is a sea, the Persian Gulf, named after Iran. If iran is our number one threat and the situation in Syria is as important as Romney claims it is, he should be expected to have some basic understanding of the geography of these two countries.