Lynch said the checkpoints on opposite sides of the road highlighted a kind of reconciliation by necessity: not fighting each other but protecting themselves from a common enemy.
"They have to be convinced that we're not leaving. That's the issue. If they were to think we're leaving we'd have also sorts of trouble," Lynch said, clambering over a makeshift earthen bridge across the canal."
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"They have to be convinced that we're not leaving. That's the issue. If they were to think we're leaving we'd have also sorts of trouble,"[General] Lynch said,
. . . and where would they get the idea that we might leave?Harry Reid types have claimed that predicting that America would lose in Iraq did not reduce our chances of success there; there is a simple way for them to put their money where their mouth is. Republicans should demand that any Democrat who makes that claim back it up by being willing to announce that the Democrats are going to lose the next election.