Maybe one of these armchair foreign policy analysts can explain something to me. How will we recognize victory in Iraq?
We’re committed to military occupation in Iraq until we win a clear victory against an insurgent resistance. There’s no timetable or schedule. The ferocity of resistance is the only measure of victory so far. Every time there’s a lull in the resistance, the conservative talking heads claim we’ve turned a corner.
All the resistance has to do is to stop resisting for a while and Bill O’Reilly and Rush Limbaugh, et al., will declare that we’ve won.
At that point, if we don’t start pulling out, supporters and opponents will wonder why, and the Islamists will use it as an excuse to again try to drive out the forces of occupation. Kind of like Afghanistan.
Sounds like a very slippery slope to me, so, what, exactly, is to be the measure of victory?
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