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The ongoing confusion about an exit strategy is present in great part because the original mission has been accomplished - and when you have done what you intended, hanging around trying to find something else to do IS awkward. The Iraq-and-the-US-troops situation is kind of like the end of a date and one party finds excuse after excuse to keep it going, hoping for sex, and they don't know
Soldiers Against Bush wrote: An American failure.By Timothy Noah [excerpts] Posted Thursday, Nov. 30, 2006, at 7:19 PM ET When we think about an exit strategy for Iraq, we are really thinking about two things. Most obviously, we're thinking about when and where to move U.S. troops, whether and how to replace those troops with Iraqi soldiers or an international force, and other
Mr. Noah is well ahead of the curve. Thus far it's been mainly the Brat Party's narrowly factional war, not something that every American needs to feel patriotically ashamed of. But now the Hambakerites have unanimously and bipartisanly pronounced in favour of lettin' the Party Brat stay its zig-zag course. And thus the unhappy condition of neo-Iraq is scheduled to become everybody's fault
