“I think Gen. David Petraeus could go down in American history with an amazing performance. … This could be a Ulysses S. Grant situation where Bush finally found the right general.”
Think about that. Exactly what would winning look like in Iraq? There are 155,000 Turkish troops poised along the northern border in Iraq. Millions have fled the country, seeking asylum throughout western asia and Europe. We've even been nice enough to accept around 7,000 in the past year. (Read this heartbreaking post from Major Bob Batemen for that disgrace). Sunnis and Shia are no closer to reconciliation today then they were in the ninth century. Iran hovers. The Saudi empire wobbles.
In the Civil War, victory was easily defined as the cessation of hostilities and the surrender of the Confederate Army. Even the political "victory" was easily definable as the reconstitution of the broader union and the reconstruction of the South. In Iraq, there is no parallel to these clean definitions of victory, either militarily or politically. Kristol is a dangerous fool to suggest that.
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