The problem isn’t going to be with our troops, it’s going to be the Iraqi PM and his government that the Dems are going to go after and while I hate to say it, they are correct. The Iraqi PM is a POS and needs to fall. He’s in bed with Mookie and Iran and it’s no wonder that things got so out of hand over there.
The reason the Dems are incorrect is that there is no such thing as a political solution until after a military solution is in place. Negotiation and non-violent politics do not create peace. Victory in war creates peace, by making violent opposition obviously futile.
Only a peace enforced by the threat of violent reprisal allows politics of a non-ballistic nature to proceed. For that reason, we should look at the spasmodic behavior of Maliki as temporary. Either his behavior or his person will be transfigured in the months ahead—as the Surge squeezes out the disorder from AQ, the Mookster, and his friends in Iran.