Now That We’ve ‘Won,’ Let’s Come Home

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Author(s) Frank Rich
Source The New York Times
Date June 22, 2008
URL http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/22/opinion/22rich.html
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Quotes-start.png "If “we are winning” and the surge is a “success,” then what is the rationale for keeping American forces bogged down there while the Taliban regroups ominously in Afghanistan? Why, if this is victory, does Mr. McCain keep threatening that “chaos and genocide” will follow our departure? And why should we take the word of a prophet who failed to anticipate the chaos and ethnic cleansing that would greet our occupation?" Quotes-end.png


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