That’s the title of a piece in today’s Los Angeles Times that features interviews with a number of lawmakers that favor withdrawal…and most aren’t particularly concerned with the outcome for Iraq:
Obey seems like such a pleasant fellow. And caring too, in a let-God-sort-them-out kind of way. So what does Harry Reid say he’d do if violence increased dramatically following a U.S. withdrawal? “That’s a hypothetical. I’m not going to get into it.” Of course no one thinks it will remain a hypothetical, but in the sense that it hasn’t happened yet–Reid just won’t discuss events that will take place in the future. And my favorite comment comes from Rep. Lynn Woolsey of the Out of Iraq Caucus, “I believe, if we leave, the region will pull together,” she said. Woolsey’s assessment goes beyond hypothetical and into pure fantasy, she makes it sound like Iraq will turn into Middle East love-in if only the U.S. military would just get out of the way. Or how about this:
So their entire legislative program consists of pulling U.S. troops out of Iraq and none of them has really thought about what might happen if they got their way? It’s kind of hard to take these folks seriously, but they’re deadly serious about letting Iraqis slaughter each other.
Insurgencies burn themselves out, too, senator, just look at Anbar. And the best part about that…it’s al Qaeda that gets burned.
