A few months back, just prior to the fall election, we heard endless claims from those on the right, all the way up to the president himself, that advocating for withdrawal was advocating for defeat. It is amazing how much can change in the course of a few months.
Today, no less than Charles Krauthammer himself is suggesting we need to start seriously considering the idea of redeployment. Key quote:
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.
Nice to see Krauthammer has come around to John Murtha's position. Given everything Krauthammer has said about Murtha's plan, that's pretty ironic, don't you think?
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