Comments on: Cut and walk?

By: liberal

liberal — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 11:50:31 +0000

“…I can imagine that our withdrawal could make things worse rather than better.”
This is very likely, of course—_in the short run_.
In the long run, a very plausible case can be made that it will make no net difference (or might make things better).

By: Russ

Russ — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 02:28:04 +0000

Wait… so you are impressed that Baker, et al “admit” that they were right all along?

By: BroD

BroD — Thu, 30 Nov 2006 23:40:44 +0000

Headline glanced in passing: “Panel Recommends Iraq Pullout”

By: Oerdin

Oerdin — Thu, 30 Nov 2006 21:43:54 +0000

Countries really shouldn’t be in the invasion business unless they are willing to go the whole nice yards being as brutal and repressive as needed to put down the inevitable rebellion against their occupation. The US did that successfully during the Philippines Insurrection but modern democracies simply can’t behave brutally enough to break the will of a foreign people and even if they did could one really claim to have “saved” anyone from oppression? Therefore they should just avoid invasions to begin with.

By: yoyo

yoyo — Thu, 30 Nov 2006 21:07:52 +0000

I’ve been more worried that this gives mccain a way to squirm out from responsibility.

By: Sarah

Sarah — Thu, 30 Nov 2006 16:36:07 +0000

It’s simple, really: Bomb the cities of unrest with bags full of cash and while the greed overcomes the fanaticism and they all scramble for the gelt, load our troops up and get the hell out of there.