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The Future Of Iraq
ByPhilip Zelikow has an interesting post on Iraq:
The whole way the U.S. thinks about its interests in Iraq must change. Look forward, not backward. I am extremely interested in the story of U.S. policy toward Iraq to date, and the Sunday papers had major stories about how to reinterpret the recent past. Fascinating for me. Yet, riveted on the drama in the rear-view mirror, we may not be noticing that we're driving into eight lanes of merging traffic.
We should be asking: What are the emerging issues in Iraq's future? What should we care about? How does that connect to the way we dispose of the 140,000 troops and vast investments we now wish to withdraw or reconfigure into something else?
And how feasible is it to get out now at all? Read the whole thing. To paraphrase Oscar Wilde: when you solve the Iraq question, the Iraqis change the question.
