>a serious embarrassment to the administration
Are they capable of feeling embarrassment? Has fear of embarrassment stopped them yet?
The only plausible scenario for a U.S. exit that I can see is that the proverbial quagmire persists and deepens, with a constant stream of American casualties and rising political objections on the home front. But these fuckers could go on for months like this, proclaiming a light at the end of the tunnel.
Doug