Victory in Iraq? Or Catch 22?
Michael Landauer, in The Dallas Morning News Opinion blog, finds fault with John McCain's opposition to withdrawal of troops from Iraq. McCain said, "When you win wars, troops come home." Landauer says this statement "almost makes it sound like it's the troops' fault. If they'd just win this thing, they could come home."
McCain hasn't defined what "victory" is, but he's suggested it means conditions on the ground that allow us to remain in Iraq indefinitely (for 100 years, as he put it once). And if conditions on the ground don't permit that, we have to stay until they do. Face it. The troops aren't coming home under a President McCain. Catch 22 is alive and well.
After meeting with Gen. David Petraeus in Iraq, Barack Obama acknowledged that the U.S. commander does not want a timetable for withdrawal of troops. Landauers admits to never being comfortable with the notion of commanders on the ground telling the President what to do.
Don't forget that President Bush kept firing generals until he got commanders on the ground that would tell him what he wanted to hear. Now, he says he listens to the commanders on the ground.
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