I have thought long and hard for many painful weeks of the implications that setting a timetable in Iraq would have on our CURRENT situation in Iraq...
My conclusions and the purpose of this blog is not to discuss whether the Iraq invasion was a good idea. Likewise, the purpose is not to discuss if we should leave Iraq - both of these I accept as irrelevant to the purpose of this particular blog. I accept that we should leave and believe that we should set measures to gauge our success at leaving - not in a timetable form, rather in an event driven analysis -
- I am posting this diary because I am truly interested in a reasoned opinion about the repercussion of us leaving and creating a power vacuum, and the strategy any reader would propose about the method of our drawdown. Certainly some ways of leaving are better than others...
I'm posting these statements upfront because I am looking for discussion, not snippet comments, that would yield a different perspective from than my current view and discuss the strategic implications associated with the method of our departure.
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