Military Expert Stephen Biddle's Best Case:
“…if everything goes right and if the US continues to "hit the lottery" with the spread of local ceasefires and none of a dozen different spoilers happens, then a patchwork of local ceasefires between heavily armed, mistrustful communities could possibly hold if and only if the US keeps 80,000-100,000 troops in Iraq for the next twenty to thirty years. And that's the best case scenario of one of the current strategy's smartest supporters. Man.”
So does that smell like “winning” is the stench of “victory” in the air?
Brit Hume thinks so.
“In terms of violence is down, troops are coming out, war’s winding down. Isn’t that victory on your terms?”
So, while Fox News unfurls the “Mission Accomplished” banners yet again, here’s a small dose of reality:
In reality, the return to pre-surge troop levels has more to do with the fact that the Army is overstretched then it has to do with any sort of progress on the ground. Just this week, Army Chief of Staff General George Casey told the Senate Armed Forces Committee that the current demand for our forces exceeds the sustainable supply because of Bush’s open-ended commitment in Iraq.
Yet another pre-mature call by pro-war supporters.
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