Oh, Come On - Residual Forces Edition
Published by BG on Thursday, June 21, 2007 at 9:51 PM.Firedoglake - Firedoglake weblog » Why a Democratic President Might Keep Troops in Iraq
The way that Obama, Edwards, and Clinton ought to frame their stances, to avoid boxing themselves in on either side, is not by promising to keep troops in Iraq or to take all of them out. Rather (as I’ve been trying to say for two years now), we need to reinstate the Powell Doctrine, which used to be the essential contract between our government and a volunteer military. If there’s a mission that we can be essentially certain of accomplishing with minimal casualties — and clear ground rules for when that situation no longer holds — then I’m fine with some troops remaining in Iraq. If not, then every last one should come home. That’s a simple standard I think voters across the political spectrum will find easy to grasp.
Does someone smarter than me want to explain this? I'm reading it as, "so long as what we're doing is easy, then okay - but the minute our military involvement gets complicated, get them the hell out of there." What exactly am I missing?
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