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I wish I had your optimism regarding Kerry's position. Unfortunately, the cynic in me takes over WRT this subject all too often.
My biggest fear isn't so much that Kerry really wants to stick around in Iraq for the unforseeable future, as much that he will bow to the kind of pressures that were LBJ's undoing on Vietnam, namely being afraid of being labeled "weak on defense" by the Republicans.
It's the same old trap of "we can't win militarily, and we can't withdraw politically." As Sy Hersh quoted Ehud Barak in his recent article as advising the US: you can't win an occupation, you can only choose the magnitude of your defeat.
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