Well, yeah, GUEST has purdy much nailed the situation except perhaps his or her thoughts that about the expulsion of Sunni's being "kinder and gentler" with the U.S. presence... Quicker??? Yeah, but kinder and gentler??? Doubtfull...
The worst thing about this is that during Bush's mad-dash-to-Iraqmire there were plenty of highly educated and knowledgeable people who were predicting exactly what is occuring in Iraq but Bush ignored them as if they were radioactive...
I think it's time for the folks who were so hell-bent on attacking Iraq to step to the plate and send their kids and step to the plate and give up the Bush-tax-cuts to pay for this war if they want to continue it... Up until now they have profited from it and lifted nar finger in the way of sacrifice...
This is the deiscussion we should be having...
Of course Iraq will fall into civil war when we leave and some way will get their differences worked out even if it means killing ebvery Sunni but the U.S. has *****no***** control over that any more than it has control over how Iraq's future governemnt will look after the civil war...
So really, given the chicken hawks and war profiteers who aren't part of the sacrifice, and won't be part of it, I'm for calling a Middle East Summit, including Iran and Syria, as a last ditch effort and face-saving effort and then get the heck out and let the Iraqi's figure it out...
And, BTW, with Viet Nam and Iraq in the lost column, ain't it about time for the US to quit electing stupid leaders???