Pity the U.S. presidential candidates. They had their positions on Iraq all worked out by last summer and have repeated them consistently ever since. But events on the ground have changed dramatically, and their rhetoric feels increasingly stale. They’re fighting the Iraq War all right, but it’s the wrong one.
The Democrats are having the hardest time with the new reality. Every candidate is committed to “ending the war” and bringing our troops back home. The trouble is, the war has largely ended, and precisely because our troops are in the middle of it.
I don’t expect much from Newsweek, but Fareed Zakaria gets a few things right. But the solution is not “an international conference on Iraq”. The solution is patience for the next 10 years or so. Given that Iraq may well become “the model”.
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