Re: Iraq: pressure for withdrawal grows
On May 11, 2007, at 1:39 PM, Carrol Cox wrote:
Does any of the discussion constituting this pressure focus at
all on the many permanent bases, costing billions of dollars, that are being built. Withdrawal from from all the cities of Iraq would NOT be withdrawal at all if troops remained at those bases.
No it wouldn’t but they’d be under constant threat of attack, and
maybe even under constant attack, so they would not be immune to the
pressure for withdrawal. More importantly, though, U.S. withdrawal
will be seen around the world as a major defeat, the biggest since
Vietnam and maybe bigger. And that would be kind of interesting,
don’t you think?
Doug