The Case AGAINST Leaving Iraq

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Sunday March 04, 2007 · 10:01 PM PST

2007/03/04 · 22:01

According to Evan Kohlmann, leaving is the WRONG thing for the US to do:

If we withdraw from Iraq right now, there's no doubt what will happen. First there's going to be a war for control of Baghdad and then once Baghdad is ripped to the ground, the battle is going to spread across Iraq. It could potentially be like Rwanda. Right now, hundreds of people are being killed each month, which is awful and horrifying in itself. Imagine if that figure was 100 times bigger. Also, if we withdraw, a widespread war is going to be entirely our responsibility. It's easy to say it's Iraqis killing Iraqis. But nobody else is going to see it that way. Everyone is going to affix blame to us. We will ultimately cause a situation that forces us to reinvade Iraq and create even more casualties. It's an awful Catch 22.

More after the jump.

I have my own thoughts on this, which will likely appear in a piece over at Fire Dog Lake sometime soon. (Let's just say that I don't agree with everything he says. And that even he admits that while he has an idea for how to fix Iraq, he doubts Bush's ability to pull it off.)

But I think that some of the people who have been posting why-aren't-they-home-yet diaries -- the people who are so smugly attacking the Democrats for not actually flying over to Baghdad and physically pulling our troops onto the choppers to take 'em home -- need to see this before they type another smug word.

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