Random thoughts this week on Iraq:
Timothy Lomperis, a former military intelligence officer now at St. Louis University, contends that leaving Iraq would only mean having to return again with 500,000 troops.
"The idea that we can redeploy away from the cities and let Baghdad turn into a swirling vortex of chaos and that any kind of negotiated solution is then possible is utterly naive," Lomperis said. "By 'redeploying' we will have created a Somalia, with the big difference that neighboring powers will be drawn into it like a whirlpool, with 50 percent of the oil on the world market, and bring our economy to its knees."
That is the chief argument to stay -- made many times before the Iraq Study Group, which still embraced a gradual, partial withdrawal.
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