[lbo-talk] Krugman: Time to Leave

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

<blockquote>So the question isn't whether things will be ugly after  
American forces leave Iraq. They probably will. The question,  
instead, is whether it makes sense to keep the war going for another  
year or two, which is all the time we realistically have.

Pessimists think that Iraq will fall into chaos whenever we leave. If  
so, we're better off leaving sooner rather than later. As a Marine  
officer quoted by James Fallows in the current Atlantic Monthly puts  
it, "We can lose in Iraq and destroy our Army, or we can just  
lose."  (Paul Krugman, "Time to Leave," 21 November 2005, <http:// 
select.nytimes.com/2005/11/21/opinion/21krugman.html>)</blockquote>

Yoshie Furuhashi
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