A Dangerous Idea for Redeployment

May 17, 2007

Redeployment to Kurdistan is no panacea for our problems in Iraq, warns Ted Galen Carpenter in the Baltimore Sun. Indeed, such a plan invites a whole host of new problems.

The article originally appeared in the Baltimore Sun on Tuesday, May 15th, 2007, and is available in its entirety online:

http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/opinion/oped/bal-op.kurdistan15may15,0,569493.story?coll=bal-oped-headlines


Ted Galen Carpenter is a founding member of the Coalition for a Realistic Foreign Policy. He is vice president for defense and foreign policy studies at the Cato Institute, where his latest study is "Escaping the Trap: Why the United States Must Leave Iraq."

Posted by coalition at May 17, 2007 08:24 AM

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