Don’t buy into false permanent occupation/exodus dichotomy

Published December 21, 2018 7:53pm ET



Conservatives knew that President Barack Obama lied to them in 2011.

“Iraq’s not a perfect place. It has many challenges ahead. But we’re leaving behind a sovereign, stable and self-reliant Iraq with a representative government that was elected by its people,” Obama proudly declared to soldiers in Fort Bragg part way through his first term. “We’re building a new partnership between our nations and we are ending a war not with a final battle but with a final march toward home.”

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