as a PRACTICAL matter, is a withdrawal from iraq a good thing? [View All]

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or does it merely make an invasion of IRAN that much more likely.

i'll take it for granted that we can all agree that putting an end to the neo-con oil war adventurism is a good thing. but if we stop the war with iraq and leave the neo-cons in charge, perhaps all we'll wind up accomplishing is freeing up military resources for an attack on iran?

think of it this way: if there's a withdrawal from iraq within, say, six months, then what on earth will shrub do with the rest of his term??? much as we'd like him to wallow in ineffectual, low-approval nothingness, the neo-cons do NOT have a track record of doing nothing.

i am very much opposed to the adventurism in the mid-oil east, but i am worried that once we see the neo-cons' next move, we might regret not forcing their hand to remain in iraq until the clock runs out on their power.