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OP-ED: The War as We Saw It, By BUDDHIKA JAYAMAHA, WESLEY D. SMITH, JEREMY ROEBUCK, OMAR MORA, EDWARD SANDMEIER, YANCE T. GRAY and JEREMY A. MURPHY, New York Times, August 19, 2007
Brilliant piece that explains so much better than I have or ever could why pullback to "the margins," as they call it, is the only sensible course now.
We simply have to get off this win-v-lose nonsense (pushed by the right), as well as this idiocy about "ending the war" (pushed by the left) and get realistic about moving this process of soft partition along.
We made our bad choices, and the Iraqis have made theirs. No more turning-back-the-clock schemes. Drawdown and pullback and manage this next inevitable stage with far fewer troops in Sunni and Shiia lands, pulling our people back to remote bases there, plus Kurdistan, where they want us desperately, and Kuwait, where we remain safe and welcome.
It's time to get off this snide.
Thanks to Aaron Brown for sending this.