Foreign Policy Establishment Supports Withdrawal

Not to exaggerate the value of an online report from a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, but the White House has lost the foreign policy establishment.

This report states that the United States has a bad situation on its hands in Iraq and none of the options available to it are better than gradual disengagement.

Maybe, hopefully, the White House will start to move in that direction. To find out, twenty years from now, that the "surge" was just a Kissingerian move to increase American leverage as we work our way out the door would be maddening. And it would certainly be ineffective long-term policy.