Setting the Bar at ‘Apocalyptic’

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Karen DeYoung and Thomas E. Ricks have a piece in the Washington Post today that takes a closer look at what the military has determined to be the probable fall-out from a rapid U.S. withdrawal in Iraq. They quote retired Marine Col. Gary Anderson, who says “I honestly don’t think it will be apocalyptic…[but] it will be ugly.” From there the authors counter that

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