Comments on: It’s All So Quiet

By: jimportlandor

jimportlandor — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 23:45:25 +0000

If Obama moves up the schedule two weeks, the ‘impeach the traitor’ movement in the GOP will go into overdrive. (Not that they need any excuse, you understand).

I think I agree with your basic premise that some of the Vietnam era divisions may be blunted.

But, the WH Press Sec’y is still this week calling the dates ‘aspirational’. Which proves to those previously unconvinced, that even clear words on paper don’t mean what they say when read by the GOP folks. (See Geneva Conventions).

Obama’s biggest problem will likely come from the Pentagon. Mullen is saying the dates in the agreement are way too early. Obama is likely to have to do a Truman/McArthur on some ranking Generals/Admirals, and that will reinvigorate the wingnut right even more.

By: macaquerman

macaquerman — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 19:37:28 +0000

Care to share any idea about what’s going to happen in Iraq in the next couple of years? Stability? Shia grabfest? Fragmentization?

By: WilliamOckham

WilliamOckham — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 19:20:18 +0000

The good news — the really good news — is that we’ll probably be spared a Vietnam-like 30 years’ worth of recriminations over withdrawal.

Oh, you are naive. Or maybe just too young. I predict a Bill Kristol ‘Stab in the back’ column before 1/1/09.