This could be one of those unexpected events that forever changes the way the world perceives an issue. Iraq's Prime Minister agrees with Obama, and there's no wiggle room or fudge factor. This puts John McCain in an extremely precarious spot: what's left to argue? to argue against Maliki would be to predicate that Iraqi sovereignty at this point means nothing. Obviously, our national interests aren't equivalent to Iraq's, but... Malik isn't listening to the ...
Rick Klau said:
This strikes me as not a big deal, but as a HUGE deal. It's much, much harder to argue that we should stay there in our current set-up when the government that we instituted is saying unequivocally that we should get out. And it's much, much harder to argue that Obama's weak on national security when he's able to (from thousands of miles away) show that his consistently-held policy has now been endorsed by that same government. In other words, he was right, he had the foresight to see this coming, and had he been in charge we wouldn't be in this spot in the first place.
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This could be one of those unexpected events that forever changes the way the world perceives an issue. Iraq's Prime Minister agrees with Obama, and there's no wiggle room or fudge factor. This puts John McCain in an extremely precarious spot: what's left to argue? to argue against Maliki would be to predicate that Iraqi sovereignty at this point means nothing. Obviously, our national interests aren't equivalent to Iraq's, but... Malik isn't listening to the ...Shared by arsalan (7) Babychen Mathew (251) Brad (39) Carbonlord (46) Chris (64) Daniel Thompson (0) Gil (158) Kye Michael (0) Rick Klau (71) Steven Brier (0)
