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Perspective On Iraqi Troop Withdrawal
Ex Turpi: Al-Maliki isn't a legitimate leader. As I've posted in response to other people's blogs, I would wait until the end of this year to see how this surge works. If the situation doesn't significantly improve overall in Iraq by the end of this year, I would begin withdrawing troops as well as private contractors.
posted by
WavyDavy
on August 26, 2007 at 1:12 PM
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Point on, EX TURPI. Regardless of troop withdrawal or pull outs or surges
or whatever, this military venture is doomed when posed alongside the political picture. Winning on the ground, losing, staying, going -- it really doesn't matter. The political situation remains terribly unstable. Democracy might have been embraced by the Iraqi people, but they were and are ill-prepared to practice it. And without political stability, whether it be democratically elected or authoritarian in makeup, the future of Iraq will be factious and frought with civil strife. And the Bush administration's ridiculous idealism with regard to the creation of American styled government on the Euphrates, an America in microscosm in Iraq, has seen nothing but systematic, institutional, and continued failure.
posted by
saul_relative
on August 26, 2007 at 9:58 AM
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An interesting perspective on positions on withdrawal of troops in Iraq
posted by
Straightforward
on August 26, 2007 at 6:59 AM
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