> Maureen wrote:
> If you are aware of the current administration's agenda for Iraq, you
> would know it has been a total success.
Well, you're right there.
And Obama isn't going to be able to do much with Bush's crap heap:
Obama's first year in Iraq is going to be tougher than Bush's last
year. Three reasons for that: First, three rounds of elections are
scheduled in 2009, and those tend to be violent in Iraq. Second, the
easy U.S. troop withdrawals have been made, and the pullouts at the
end of this year will be riskier. Finally, none of the basic
existential problems facing Iraq have been answered-the power
relationships between groups, leadership of the Shiites, the sharing
of oil revenue, the status of the disputed city of Kirkuk, to name
just the most pressing ones.
Compounding the problem will be the incorrect perception of many
Americans that the Iraq was all but over when Obama took office.
(He's talking about Robert here)
Despite the conventional wisdom that the war is nearly over,
Obama's war in Iraq may last longer than Bush's, which clocks in at a
robust 5 years and 10 months. "So now you back in the trap--just that,
trapped," to quote Big Boi and Dre. My best guess is that we will have
at least 35,000 troops there in 2015, as Obama's likely second term is
winding down.
http://ricks.foreignpolicy.com/node/14892
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