The Iraqi Prime Minister, Nuri Al-Maliki, endorses Barack Obama’s withdrawal plan for Iraq.
Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki told a German magazine he supported prospective U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama’s proposal that U.S. troops should leave Iraq within 16 months.
In an interview with Der Spiegel released on Saturday, Maliki said he wanted U.S. troops to withdraw from Iraq as soon as possible.
“U.S. presidential candidate Barack Obama talks about 16 months. That, we think, would be the right timeframe for a withdrawal, with the possibility of slight changes.”
Of course, one of the big flaws in the Republican fetishization of “the facts on the ground” (read: the cobbled-together occurrences and out-of-context events that make up the continued rationale to keep fighting onwards towards Victory 18 of 26 in the war) is that, quite often, the facts on the ground reflect an Iraqi political and military landscape that, to an extent, mirrors ours. There are always going to be downsides to any plan in Iraq, if for no other reason than that the continued building on a flawed foundation simply guarantees a flawed building. What we have to take from this is that it’s generally smarter to stop building than it is to continually (and expensively) compensate for the thousands of mistakes that were made during the process.
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“What we have to take from this is that it’s generally smarter to stop building than it is to continually (and expensively) compensate for the thousands of mistakes that were made during the process.”
Admitting Mistakes = Defeatocrat
My god, Jesse! Don’t you understand that? When you start to kick some smaller country’s ass, you have to follow through and make them our total bitch. Otherwise how will it look to the rest of the world — especially the Goddam French?
Obviously what this means is anyone tainted by exposure to Mooslims cannot be trusted. All we have left is the tender mercies of the Ann Coulter option: ” We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity.”
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The alternative is to grow up as a nation, accept that we fucked up and accept the painful consequences of our actions. Since that’s way too difficult for the evil cadre of NeoConMen currently in charge of American policy, I guess that approach is off the table…