Indeed!
The Iraq Study Group Report is in, and it seems to be a best seller! It lists many many Good Things We Can Do In Iraq. Most of them no longer possible, if they ever were. Meantime, George W. Bush says he will be "flexible and realistic" about ... troop movements! Here's what the NY Times reports: "Bush Backs Away..."
By now, it seems pretty clear that the president isn't going to change anything with regard to the Iraq disaster. And why should he? Anything that includes keeping American ("Coalition Of The Willing") military in Iraq, which is not at all negotiable for this newly "flexible and realistic" President, is more likely to make things worse than they are already. Why not simply leave things as they are; let the killing continue. After all, as the President says, it isn't that he is losing the war in Iraq - he just isn't winning fast enough! Therefore, when the next President of the US abandons Iraq, the neocon historical revisionists can report (over and over and over, until they create a believing electorate) that the War President was within a hairs breadth of Winning In Iraq; but the new president was insufficiently bellicose for the task - It's All Her Fault!
As for that part about "When Iraq Can Defend Itself", judging by the casualty figures among the occupying forces (regrettably, they are my countrymen); looks like they are able to defend themselves just fine now. Probably a result of the training they got from the US army.
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