From an ABC article titled "Is there a way out of Iraq?"
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Even before the meetings began, ABC News had learned the Pentagon was considering essentially writing off Iraq's deadliest province for American forces, pulling U.S. troops out of Anbar, and moving them to fight what may be an even more difficult battle: the fight for Baghdad.
Professor Noah Feldman from New York University helped write the Iraqi constitution.
He said, "As Baghdad goes, so goes the nation."
But the fact that the Pentagon is considering abandoning Anbar shows the "ineffectiveness of the strategy and troop commitment to this point," Feldman said. "We have spent so much blood there."
Feldman said, "In a perfect world, I would not walk away from Anbar. But Iraq is far from a perfect world."
From the beginning of the war, Anbar province has been the heart of the Sunni insurgency, and more recently al Qaeda's main base of operations in Iraq.
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http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/story?id=2687585&page=1
