Wednesday, February 08, 2006
Withdrawing from Iraq in 18 monthsThe Jan/Feb 2006 Boston Review has a New Democracy Forum on the Iraq War, called Exit Strategy.In the lead article to which the others respond, Barry Posen of MIT advocates an 18-month timetable for withdrawal of US troops from Iraq, with the assumption that the US will still militarily guarantee Iraq's external security: The Bush administration believes that to accomplish its goals, the U.S. military must stay in Iraq, continuing to build its vaguely stated model of a Middle Eastern democracy. In this view, the current stalemate can be broken by steady and achievable improvements in the administration of Iraq, ever more representative and inclusive political institutions, and significant increases in the size and quality of Iraq's security forces - all of which have proved elusive. | +Save/Share | | |
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