The Time Is Now

Maybe so, but the Doofus-in-Chief has decided not to bother about any of it until after Christmas.

Yep, that's real good. Use the celebration of the birth of the Prince of Peace as an excuse to delay doing anything about the mass murder we, stupidly, refer to as war.

Bob Herbert The Time Is Now:

The primary value of the Baker-Hamilton report is that it embodies, in clear and explicit language, the consensus that has emerged in the U.S. about the current state of the war. It's not so much a blueprint for action as a recognition of reality.
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The level of violence is high and growing,' the report says. 'There is great suffering, and the daily lives of many Iraqis show little or no improvement. Pessimism is pervasive.'

With the situation in Iraq deteriorating, and support for the war in the U.S. having all but collapsed, the only real question on the table is how long the U.S. is going to drag out its inevitable pullout of combat forces. And the inevitable moral question that is inextricably linked to that slowly evolving set of circumstances is how to justify the lives that will be lost between now and the final day of our departure.

There is something agonizingly tragic about soldiers dying in a war that has already been lost. Especially since we have never known what winning would even look like.)

The scale of the debacle is breathtaking. According to the study group: 'In some parts of Iraq - notably in Baghdad - sectarian cleansing is taking place. The United Nations estimates that 1.6 million are displaced within Iraq, and up to 1.8 million Iraqis have fled the country.'