Friday, July 18, 2008
Waffles
On the question of Iraq policy, is Barack Obama fundamentally consistent, a cynical waffler, or sensibly changing his point of view as new facts develop? A new McCain campaign video rather forcefully selects door number two. Ouch.
3 Comments:
By 
, at
Fri Jul 18, 04:01:00 PM:
Hussein is going to Iraq this weekend. I understand that he and his people want to finalize some of the surrender details.
By 
Eric, at
Sat Jul 19, 12:15:00 PM:
I don't have a problem with the 16 month timetable. It's reasonable and probably necessary for drawing down US forces in Iraq. I'm a big fan of COIN and our recent success in Iraq has validated my belief in it. Even so, my expectation was that succeed or fail, the 'surge' had to end by 2010, and lo and behold, Jan 09 plus 16 months equals May 2010. The key is how the drawdown is done and to what purpose. Obama is holding out the carrot to his anti-war fans that the drawdown over 16 months will be total and absolute, regardless of conditions. I disagree with that. I hope the inevitable drawdown will be thoughful and in pace with conditions, with the possibility that it could be a total withdrawal - under the right conditions.
By , at
Sat Jul 19, 08:19:00 PM:
TH - I love you, but man, what a crappy title.
Here I was, thinking about the Waffle House, or somewhere to have waffles, and this is a damn political post.
WTF?!?!?!
LOL
