Reply #162: That's not what you're reading here. The Bush course is don't talk to anyone. [View All]

[Bucky]

Clark's course is to sit down with the key regional players and start cutting deals (of course he says "start having frank discussions about our mutual interests in stablizing the region" but it's distinction without a difference). Talking is the only exit strategy that will get our troops out without leaving ten of thousands of Iraqis slaughtered and the United States permanently disgraced in the eyes of the world.

I don't like it, but it's the only morally justifiable choice. We as a nation chose this war; Iraqis so far are paying 90% of the human costs.