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Politics : Don't Blame Me, I Voted For Kerry

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To: ChinuSFO who started this subject5/15/2004 12:15:50 AM
From: CalculatedRisk of 81568
 
America Adrift in Iraq

Published: May 15, 2004
nytimes.com


Six weeks of military and political reverses seem to have left the Bush administration doing little more in Iraq than grasping at ways to make it past November's presidential election without getting American troops caught in a civil war. The lowering of the administration's expectations might be therapeutic if it produced a realistic strategy for achieving a realistic set of goals. Unfortunately, there appears to be no such strategy, only odd lurches this way and that under the pressure of day-to-day events. That pattern heightens the danger of an eventual civil war or anarchy, the two main things that American forces are ostensibly remaining in Iraq to prevent.

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