Get Out!

Lieutenant General William E. Odom, U.S. Army (Ret.), a Senior Fellow with Hudson Institute and a professor at Yale University makes the case for getting the heck out of Iraq here. He was head of the National Security Agency during the Reagan administration, and know all the issues very well. The whole article is very good, but one political excerpt is striking:
Look at John Kerry's utterly absurd position during the presidential campaign. He said “It’s the wrong war, in the wrong place, at the wrong time," but then went on to explain how he expected to win it anyway. Even the voter with no interest in foreign affairs was able to recognize it as an absurdity. If it was the wrong war at the wrong place and time, then it was never in our interest to fight. If that is true, what has changed to make it in our interest? Nothing, absolutely nothing.
That's a very good example of why Kerry now provokes such a strong aversive refles in me. Hillary has been only slightly less obviously incoherent on the issue - either that, or just less visible.

(I found the link to this article in this reader comment at the TPM Cafe )

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