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OP-ED: "After the Surge: The Administration Floats Ideas for a New Approach in Iraq," By David Ignatius, May 22, 2007; Page A15
Bingo!
This fits what I've been predicting in the brief for months (also stated in "State of the World"):
Iraq: The Quagmire
... Following our last best effort on the "surge," the inevitable U.S. drawdown--and "drawback" from combat roles--will look like Vietnam in reverse: We shift from direct action to advising locals ...
There is no "Iraq" any more than there was a "Yugoslavia," so America will have to accept this Humpty Dumpty outcome for what it is: a Balkans done backward.
Not rocket science to predict, just horizontal thinking that connects the dots temporally.