Obama's Iraq Challenge
Michael Hirsh, Newsweek
In his speech to the nation Tuesday night, Barack Obama will try to make the seven-and-a-half-year conflict he once called a "dumb war" sound a lot smarter. He will try to turn social chaos into rhetorical order, to make America's ill-fated incursion into Iraq seem like it's at the beginning of the end when it's really closer to the end of the beginning. Obama will try to map a politically driven withdrawal schedule"”the Aug. 31 deadline he is proudly meeting by drawing down to a remaining 50,000 "noncombat"...
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