…hasty response, abandonment, Sunni – Shi’ite conflict, Republicans cleaning up Democratic messes, Clintonian, short-sighted, parallels to 1990s, abandonment, Cassandra, flawed counter-terrorism policy, Iran, People’s Republic of China, Russia, Uzbekistan, resurgence of Chinese expansionism, resurgence of Russian expansionism, Kurds, Third Gulf War, Fourth Gulf War, Israel, Middle East Conflict, origins of the current crisis, Hi folks: sorry that we messed up things for you a decade or two down the line – but in my personal defense I voted for the other guy in 2008.
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Call me a conspiracy theorist but I find this announcement highly suspect. The Supercommittee needs to find reductions by, what – Thanksgiving in either the military budget or entitlements. What a great way to hack at the military budget by taking troops out of Iraq regardless of what the ground commanders think.