Out in Eighteen Months or One Hundred Years?
If Iraqi and US politicians are to act rationally, they must recognize that a long-term presence by US troops is out of the question, but that US combat forces will be needed in Iraq – albeit with a diminishing role – for the next five years. Only such a presence can consolidate the palpable, but still reversible, gains made over the past year.
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BLOOMINGTON, INDIANA – Winston Churchill once said that, in wartime, truth was so precious that it needed to be surrounded by a “bodyguard of lies.” In America’s presidential campaign – and, sadly, within Iraq itself nowadays – the Iraq War may not be surrounded by a bodyguard of lies, but it has certainly picked up a vast entourage of partisan half-truths, cynical indifference, and uninformed stubbornness.