On 11/9/06, Marvin Gandall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
The "new direction" for Iraq being touted by the Democrats is code for a staged withdrawal similar to the one initiated by the new Nixon administration in Vietnam between 1969-73.
Four more years at least, then, as I said. Except the end result will probably be more like the end of the Korean War (the absence of anti-war and other uprisings in the streets at home makes the Iraq War more like the Korean War than the Vietnam War), with a permanent US presence in the Kurdish region of Iraq, unless the Kurds surprise me and rebel against their pro-Washington leaders and US presence.
The Iranians and Syrians will be counted upon to secure the respective cooperation of the warring Shia and Sunni factions to this end.
Except that Tehran and Damascus don't have as much control over Shia and Sunni factions in Iraq as they probably wish and the Baker wing of the power elite may believe. -- Yoshie <http://montages.blogspot.com/> <http://mrzine.org> <http://monthlyreview.org/>
