On last week's testimony from Gen. Petraeus and Ambassador Crocker:
The Iraqi government has still, more than five years after combat operations began, demonstrated neither the will nor the capacity to sufficiently enact and implement the measures necessary for national reconciliation--and therefore, it’s long past time for us to redeploy and transition our forces to a change of mission...
As long as [the Iraqi government] assume[s] the long-term protection of the United States will be in place, they have no incentive to address the root cause of the sectarian violence.
--Eli Pariser, political director of Moveon.org
Oh, wait. I'm sorry: That wasn't Pariser. It was Maine's (Republican) senior senator, Olympia Snowe.
Of course, she's missed a handful of votes over the years, so her opinion may not be worth much.
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