U.S. Can’t Stay in Iraq and Can’t Leave

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Kofi Annan, no doubt trying to be helpful, neatly captures the impossibility of the American posture in Iraq.

“The U.S. has found itself in the position where it cannot stay and it cannot leave. I believe that if it has to leave, the timing has to be optimum, and it has to be arranged in such a way that it does not lead to even greater disruption or violence in the region.”

I think “optimum” went out the window a while back.

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