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To: KonKilo who wrote (37830)	5/24/2007 8:53:24 PM
From: JohnM	Read Replies (1) of 542218

I wonder how many folks arguing for withdrawal define it as we do? Don't know and I would certainly like to see much more withdrawal than I think is likely. It's just that I see the core of the establishment US foreign policy committed to military bases in the ME for the long term. If you consider the Clinton foreign policy team to represent the sort of left wing of that crew, I think it's obvious. Ken Pollack, tek's friend, writes out of that orientation; Dennis Ross, who was Clinton's chief adviser on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict certainly does; I think Madeline Albright does; etc. I don't have any way to know who Obama and/or Edwards might appoint, to take the other two most likely Dem nominees, but it's unlikely they would withdraw from the present set of bases. And most likely they would try to keep some sort of bases in Iraq though not have them involved in Iraq per se.

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