John sKerry said, "Our troops have done their job in Iraq, and they've done it valiantly. It's time to work with the new Iraqi government to bring our combat troops home by the end of this year."
That's like saying to a doctor, "You've done a good job of stabilizing this patient so he's not in immediate danger of death. Let his body take over and forget about stitching up the wounds and taking care of the pain and infection problems."
"That's like saying to a doctor . . ."
Yes, or like saying "mission accomplished" as someone else commented on a thread.
There's a lesson to be learned (or rather re-learned). Some people just look at the short opening statement or soundbite and evaluate it out of context, and others (like me in this particular instance) too quickly take those evaluations without checking it out for themselves. It pays to go back to the source and read what was actually said or done and see it in context.