What Exactly are We Doing in Iraq?

Gene Healy and Justin Logan question exactly what our Iraq strategy is.

I remember listening to Rush Limbaugh when he said that the exit strategy in Iraq was "victory." Of course, he didn't give a specific idea as to how that would be achieved, other than something to the effect that we would set up a democratic government.

I think that that is the real problem in Iraq. We have some vague, fuzzy outlines of a goal (train Iraqis to handle their own security, set up a democratic government) but no actual metrics by which to define actual victory (as in, how many Iraqi troops have to be trained before we can significanlty draw down our forces.

Moreover, if anything, we seem to getting deeper into the war with the slow creep upwards of the number of soldiers getting committed to Iraq.

And the casualty figures just keep on' chuggin' along...

That is all.