Yoshie wrote:
All that the Baker commission does is to make recommendations, which the White House is unlikely to accept; and even if Democrats take one or both chambers of Congress, the Democratic leaders are committed to not denying the President his war funds, and lower-ranking Democrats, as well as Republicans, are hardly of one mind. So, that means at least several more years of muddling through, imho. Then perhaps they will take the Iraqi Kurdistan option.
================================ Always possible. It took four years from the Nixon-Kissinger decision to stop major offensive operations and engage in peace talks with the Vietnamese before the last US American troops were pulled out in 1973, and this didn't preclude the US from meanwhile continuing its massive bombing campaigns in Cambodia and North Vietnam, and equipping the ARVN. But, as in Vietnam after 1969, Congressional funding would likely accompany and perhaps be tied to a staged withdrawal while US occupation forces avoid big battles and limit their casualties.
