from the Washington Post

The ‘Blame The Iraqis’ Gambit
By Robert Kagan
Sunday, June 3, 2007; Page B07

Republican leaders think they’re being clever in saying that if there is no progress by September, or by the end of 2008, we will have to wash our hands of the whole mess. That’s nonsense. Defeat will be no more tolerable in January 2009 than it is now. And it won’t matter whom we try to blame.

As for the United States, if we are driven out of Iraq, it will be by al-Qaeda, not by the flaws of the Iraqi people.

for the rest of the story: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/06/01/AR2007060102179.html

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