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Is withdrawal coming? No way!

November 16th, 2006

Tom Engelhardt at TomDispatch asks Will Daddy’s Boys Extend the War? and answers with a resounding “Yes!” Despite talk of “redeployment,” “new tactics,” “new ideas,” and the like, true withdrawal is simply not in the cards, Engelhardt argues.

Just look at the permanent military bases, still under construction. Look at the massive billion dollar American embassy, “George Bush’s Palace,” as its called by the Iraqis. Why build if the country is going to be allowed to fall into “anti-Iraqi,” aka anti-american hands. Or look at the never-ending, and little-reported, air war.

Throughout the Bush regime, Engelhardt has led coventional wisdom, often by years. The man knows what he writes about and knows how to put pieces of information together with his background knowledge to reveal the underlying patterns. So read No Exit? What It Means to “Salvage U.S. Prestige” in Iraq to disabuse yourself of any illusions that the Iraq Study Group, Robert Gates, or any of daddy’s boys will lead Shrub, or us, out of the morass.

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