Oh, hell, everybody knows we'll leave the way we did in Vietnam; we'll Iraqize the war without really pulling out, Bush won't give up and Rove wants to stick the Dems with the war after Bush is gone; the Dems won't withdraw completely because they're afraid of being Soft On Defense and Losing Iraq blah blah blah; and eventually when things finally go completely blooey, probably aroud 2011, we'll leave with the helicopters lifting off the embassy roof.
--- Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
>
> On Apr 8, 2007, at 6:56 PM, Carrol Cox quoted Noah
> Feldman, CFR's
> expert on the compatibility of Islam and democracy
> <http://
> www.cfr.org/publication/9523/>:
>
> > To do so, we need to
> > avoid the kind of withdrawal that would allow Al
> Qaeda to claim
> > victory
> > while simultaneously precipitating a humanitarian
> crisis that would
> > destabilize the region. We have no business
> starting wars we cannot
> > bring ourselves to complete, but maybe we can
> bring ourselves to win a
> > war we didn’t start.
>
> Yeah, right. What do you expect from a guy who
> helped write the Iraqi
> constitution?
>
> The U.S. is going to have to leave Iraq, somehow.
> You think it can
> just go on like this indefinitely, Carrol?
>
> Doug
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