If you didn’t notice it at the time, check out Scott Bates recent column in the Day. Scott points out that we have actually achieved all the goals (bullshit that they were) we set for the war in Iraq when we started it, and that it is therefore time to leave.
Iraq has fallen out of the news, replaced in recent months by Afghanistan. We have short and limited attention spans. Remember when Iraq almost unseated Joe Lieberman?
No good will come from the adventure in Iraq. Once we leave, it may very well make common cause with Iran. Under Saddam there was a nice healthy (from our perspective) enmity between the two. But we have to leave, if for no other reason than that we are impoverishing ourselves with endless war.
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