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19 Jan 2007 04:21 pm
A Redeployment Strategy
Charles Krauthammer has reached a position that is close to indistinguishable from where I now find myself:
We need to find a redeployment strategy that maintains as much latent American strength as possible, but with minimal exposure. We say to Maliki: Let us down, and we dismantle the Green Zone, leave Baghdad and let you fend for yourself; we keep the airport and certain strategic bases in the area; we redeploy most of our forces to Kurdistan; we maintain a significant presence in Anbar province, where we are having success in our one-front war against al-Qaeda and the Baathists. Then we watch. You can have your Baghdad civil war without us. We will be around to pick up the pieces as best we can.
Sane and realistic. So let's drop the Plus Up fantasies, shall we?
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