Obama isn't going to take US forces out of Iraq, and to be honest the likely result of a US withdrawal in Iraq is an Iraqi genocide in which the Sunnis and Kurds are knocked off. I don't think that we're talking about something on the order of the Holocaust, but matching Rwanda or Bosnia? Sure.
Then leave. And let the chips fall where they may. And promise not to do it again.
The only issue will be hammering out the details of what to do with Iraqis who want to get out, too.
MfM's assumptions are a little silly here. The idea that the Sunnis outside of Iraq are going to sit around while the Shi'ia slaughter the Iraqi Sunnis is ridiculous.
I'm also not a big believer that the Shi'ia are going to set about trying to kill all the Sunnis and Kurds the moment we turn our backs. I don't follow how our soldiers would prevent this either.
I'm skeptical, too, as these excuses for staying are the excuses provided by the Very Serious People who supported the war and want to stay in order to prop up their imaginary honor. Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. - George Carlin
Which is basically what's going to happen.
Except of course the part about letting iraqis emigrate to coalition countries. I do not have the numbers but recently it was reported that the swedish town of Södertälje has accepted more refugees from Iraq then the entire US. And I bet there are towns in Syria that is housing more refugees then Sweden in total. A vote for PES is a vote for EPP! A vote for EPP is a vote for PES! Support the coalition, vote EPP-PES in 2009!
- Jake If you only spend 20 minutes of the rest of your life on economics, go spend them here.
