[Intolerant in NJ]

The U.S. government told the Iraqi government that it needed to achieve 18 goals...it is the height of arrogance for the US government to tell the Iraqis how many of what kinds of goals they must achieve for our continued militray support - how they resolve or not their political problems, our purpose there is military - to make sure they have enough security to allow them to build their own forces to the point that they can take over their own self-defense and peace-keeping - claims that we should leave because they haven't resolved issues such as who gets what oil money are only attempts to find a quick and easy way out........

[tabor]

I decided to read the whole article, and it’s not quite as bad as the header seemed. At the end of the article, Koch says if we pull out of Iraq, we need to prepare for a decades-long battle with Islamists at home, and for America to wake up.
He also makes a couple of somewhat cogent points about Iran and our allies, or rather, lack of them.