Progress to what... They have no exit strategy Posted by Max Bergmann

Harping on a point I made below... Petraeus and Crocker have no problems projecting out the potential implications of leaving Iraq - but they refuse to make projections of what staying will look like. That double standard is absurd. Is there a strategic plan for our presence in Iraq? If so what? The answer is pretty clearly no. They have no end game. There is no exit strategy. The Bush/McCain/Petraeus/Crocker plan is simply to stay and to stay a very very long time in the hopes that things slowly get better.

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[Dan Kervick]

They have no exit strategy because they know that at the national political level there is no plan to exit Iraq - ever. Thus they have never been called upon to craft a strategy for doing so.