<p>Mini–I’m sorry, I am going to show my stupidity or gullibility here. Is your refrain of “stay the course” said with sarcasm or are you seriously supporting the current policy? And are you saying it with regard to Iraq or a more general political policy? Don’t laugh, it’s a serious even if dumb question, I just don’t understand it coming from you.</p>
<p>wow, golani, your grasp is underwhelming, do you think it is going well in Iraq?</p>
<p>I never said its going well, i dont think its going well, but i dont necessarily see it as going bad. There is alot of things that we could be doing better, but then at the same time other than a few hotspots iraq is doing well</p>
<p>“Is your refrain of “stay the course” said with sarcasm or are you seriously supporting the current policy?”</p>
<p>I can’t support the current policy, because I can’t even figure out what it is. Certainly we’ve all sat here for a year since Murtha called for a phased withdrawal, and I can’t see that things have gotten better “for us”, and clearly a lot worse for the Iraqis. They are voting with their feet, more than a million a year, and these are not the militants, but the secularist base upon which any long-term solution to be brokered would seem to depend. They won’t be going back anytime soon, and I think the RIGHT thing to do would be to allow them to settle in the U.S., and become (over a long period of time) our cheerleaders.</p>