Want to get a glimpse as to what Iraq might look like should we leave? Check out Lex’s latest: You think winning is hard? You should see what losing looks like. Don’t pretend we couldn’t see it coming. Don’t pretend you didn’t have your part in it, one way or the other. Eyes wide open.
In today’s Washington Post, Major General William Webmaster had a few words to say about setting a date to leave Iraq: A top American commander in Iraq on Wednesday denounced calls by some U.S. senators and others for a deadline on withdrawal from Iraq, calling that “a recipe for disaster” for the 2 -year-old war. [...]
There’s something deep in me that wanted to write about the 2,000th death of an American servicemember in Operation Iraqi Freedom, but the words simply weren’t coming. Then tonight, I read Lex’s post “On Tragedy and Round Numbers”. And he said all that I was thinking and then some. I don’t want to lose this [...]