Friday, January 28, 2005

Iraq   On Iraq, with elections a day away, almost everyone now wants a good electoral outcome, but not to blres Bush's war. The folowing is about as good a perspective as I have seen.   Iraq: Winning the Unwinnable War James Dobbins By losing the trust of the Iraqi people, the Bush administration has already lost the war. Moderate Iraqis can still win it, but only if they wean themselves from Washington and get support from elsewhere. To help them, the United States should reduce and ultimately eliminate its military presence, train Iraqis to beat the insurgency on their own, and rally Iran and European allies to the cause. Pasted from <http://www.foreignaffairs.org/current/>   And forget about the 14 bases and the big Embassy. Posted by douglass carmichael 5:24:26 PM    comment []