costs of staying will be borne US; the cost of leaving will be borne by Iraqi

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War of ideas
Michael Ignatieff, a former Harvard professor and now a member of Canada's parliament and deputy leader of the Liberal Party, writes a long piece for the Times's Sunday Magazine about how hard it is to get ideas right in the political realm. As an early public supporter of the war, the piece is a mea culpa of sorts and a rumination on the responsibilities of intellectuals in public life. But in an academic tract on the nature of judgment and the role of ideas and emotions in politics, he sums up the problems facing Iraq succinctly in a short statement as brutal as a shivving: "Staying and leaving each have huge costs. One thing is clear: The costs of staying will be borne by Americans, while the cost of leaving will be mostly borne by Iraqis."


http://www.iraqslogger.com/index.php/post/3817/US_Papers_Sun_Living_the_Bad_Life_in_Baghdad

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1. The mere act of our arrival put a heavy cost on all of Iraq, a price they continue to pay.