How We’ll Withdraw From Iraq
Posted on | October 18, 2006
By calling it a “redeploy and contain” strategy, which is of course completely different from whatever it is that Republican leaders like to call “cut and run.”
The group is also considering another option, called “Stability First”, which would advise securing Baghdad, while bringing Iran and Syria to the table to use their influence to end the insurgency crippling efforts to bring peace to Iraq.
“The bottom line is, [the current policy] isn’t working… There’s got to be another way,” one participant in the ISG meetings said. “You can’t come out of those briefings and not have a sense that things are in real bad shape.
And when the last helicopter dusts off from the roof of the embassy in Saigon Baghdad, we’ll still be claiming victory as we advance purposefully in a rearward vector.
