Iraq is not yesterday’s war. If Obama withdraws too quickly, the tenuous peace will collapse.
Iraq may be emerging from intensive care, but it could use a bit more stitching up.
Saving Iraq and Afghanistan will require some extensive operations.
Governments get the bureaucracies the deserve.
In order to deal effectively with America's predicament in Iraq, it is essential to understand that we had begun to walk down the road to Baghdad long before September 11, indeed, quite before the Bush Administration came to power.