It has been refreshing to see calls for an exit strategy from Iraq coming from even administration friends in high places.

I guess over 1,700 dead and 13,000 wounded Americans is the point at which a sizeable portion of our population begins to wonder why and when people start wondering politicians start worrying.

John McCain advises us that we will be in Iraq “at least a couple of more years”, a time frame that he clearly pulled out of his ass. Or maybe he reasons that we should be willing and able to sacrifice 1,530 more dead and 11,463 wounded before he gets worried.

Condi is loyal enough to continue parroting the administration line that leaving is somehow tied to Iraq’s ability to take care of their own security. I have asked it once and I will ask it again. Who is taking care of their security now? Would their security actually be worse if we just up and left? Keeping Iraqi’s secure is not exactly what we signed up for but hell, what we signed up for is a moving target anyway.

Iraq is a tragedy that will only get more tragic and even Afghanistan is beginning to look a little less like the utopia we have been led to believe that we turned it into.
Things could really get interesting if we allow the politicos to send our sons and daughters into Iran and Syria. I feel sure that this is what the current administration is working towards and if we do not want that to happen we had better start raising some hell and raising it now.