Call It a Day

August 23, 2005

Boston University's Andrew Bacevich scores again with this commentary in the Washington Post's Sunday Outlook section.

Leaving Iraq before the country achieves a stable democratic government might be painful for the president, and for the country, Bacevich explains, but staying for as long as it would take to achieve those ends will certainly be worse.


The article can be read in its entirety here.


Andrew Bacevich is a member of the Coalition for a Realistic Foreign Policy. A Vietnam veteran and professor of international relations at Boston University, he is the author of The New American Militarism: How Americans Are Seduced by War (Oxford).

Posted by coalition at August 23, 2005 11:07 AM

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