>I wish you were -- but my feeling is that close to a consensus among lbo
>and pen-l posters holds that the u.s. must not leave Iraq until it has
>made up for the damage it has done. It would be, the argument goes,
>"irresponsible" to leave the Iraqi people to their own devices.
You keep saying that, but that's certainly not my impression. You constantly criticize generalizations attributed to no particular individual or text, but here you are doing it bigtime.
Doug