"Nor can America simply turn its back on whatever happens to Iraq after it leaves. With or without American troops, a nightmare future for Iraq is a nightmare future for the United States, too, whether it consists of an expanding civil war that turns into a regional war, or millions of Iraq's people and its oil fields falling under the tightening grip of a more powerful Iran.
Wha-huh? You just spent hundreds of words telling us how we suck and how we should get out of Iraq, but then you say, but wait, we need to do this.... The person who wrote this unsigned (coward!) editorial is either drunk, stupid, retarded, a liberal, or most likely, all of the above. Ok, here is our great plan--cut and run, get out, run away...but after we are out, we have to make sure nothing bad happens in Iraq! How do you win a battle after you have already surrendered and gotten out?