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...August. And it was not only Democrats asking the questions suggesting that remaining in Iraq was futile. "The greatest risk for United States policy is not that we are incapable of making progress, but that this progress may be largely beside the point, given the divisions that now afflict Iraqi society," said Senator Richard Lugar, the Indiana Republican. "Some type of success in Iraq is possible, but as policymakers, we should acknowledge that we are facing extraordinarily narrow margins for achieving our goals." Nebraska Republican Charles Hagel noted "some very bright-line contradictions" between what Petraeus and Crocker were saying...
...since 9/11. How can he not see that he is accountable for the death of tens of thousands of Muslims, nearly all of them believers, innocent of any crimes against Islam? Whether he intended it or not, bin Laden is largely responsible for destroying Iraq. And displacing two million Iraqi Muslims...
...what a smaller U.S. troop presence can accomplish is less certain and much less discussed. Some lawmakers want the U.S. to pull out of Baghdad to Kuwait or Kurdistan. Others have called for the military to concentrate on training the Iraqi army - a project that has already cost the U.S. billions, to little effect. American soldiers complain that their nominal allies in the Iraqi police and army are more loyal to Shi'ite militias than to the national government. An American intelligence officer in a western Baghdad suburb reports that the Iraqi police there are so thoroughly infiltrated by insurgents...
...Iraqis to blame? Everyone is to blame. The U.S. marched blindly into Iraq, dreaming of Arab democracy, only to create a sinkhole of regional instability. In a pair of epic fiascos, Donald Rumsfeld, Defense Secretary at the time, okayed an invasion force that was probably too small by half - and then agreed with U.S. envoy L. Paul Bremer to cashier the entire Iraqi army two months later. But it's also true that for four years, the Iraqi government has had literally more money than it could spend and yet has produced little to show for it. Basic supplies...
...political prospects in Iraq encouraging. Washington has blown hot and cold this summer about the wisdom of sticking with what the Government Accountability Office called the "dysfunctional" al-Maliki's government. The current wind is marginally positive, but it was hard to miss the way Bush summoned the entire Iraqi A-team to Anbar during his surprise visit to press them to move faster. Iraqis tell Time, however, that it doesn't really matter if al-Maliki stays or leaves. As long as the current cast of dubious and discredited characters continues to dominate Iraqi politics, reconciliation is not going...