Robert Kagan suggests that there will be no significant troop reductions in Iraq for at least two years.
This is more disturbing than J. Peter Mulhern's statement that "we are in Iraq to stay." That statement at least did not preclude the possibility of drawing down troop levels.
In any case, I wonder where Mr. Kagan thinks we are going to get these troops? He doesn't seem to be making any suggestions as to how to make them available.
This also seems to put the lie to a lot of claims that we are on the verge of victory. If we cannot reduce troop levels for at least two more years, then obviously we still have a lot of enemies in Iraq who have not been defeated.
That is all.
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