>There is a saying in Arabic, Ahl al-bayt a`lamu bima fi'l-bayt--the
>people of a house know best what is in the house. When Sistani says
>the US should set a timetable and go, then I think we should all
>support that. But the US has made a big enough mess in Iraq without
>compounding it by hanging the Iraqis out to dry and decamping
>suddenly. By the way, Iraqis have more than once pleaded with me to
>argue against precipitous withdrawal by the US.
How presumptuous of Prof Cole! Radical leftists in the U.S. midwest know best, not scholars of the Arab world or Iraqis.
Doug