{"id":90,"date":"2006-06-13T18:38:40","date_gmt":"2006-06-14T01:38:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/sethinca\/2006\/06\/13\/good-time-for-some-strategic-redeplo"},"modified":"2006-06-13T18:38:40","modified_gmt":"2006-06-14T01:38:40","slug":"good-time-for-some-strategic-redeployment-ie-get-the-troops-out-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sethinca\/2006\/06\/13\/good-time-for-some-strategic-redeployment-ie-get-the-troops-out-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Good time for some strategic redeployment (i.e. get the troops out. now.)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So says <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/3449870\/\">Eric Alterman:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span \/><strong><strong>You know, with Zarqawi dead<\/strong><\/strong>, \u2014not that he was ever what they said he was or couldn\u2019t have been gotten before\u2014 and a new cabinet in place \u2014not that it can be expected to last\u2014 and Bush\u2019s popularity on an uptick \u2014not that it exceeds the poll\u2019s margin of error\u2014 and Rove off the hook \u2014not that he did not deliberately blow a CIA operation, waste millions, and endanger the lives of patriotic Americans\u2014 now would be a great time to <u><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.williamgreider.com\/article.php?article_id=24\"><u>declare victory and get the hell out of there<\/u><\/a><\/u>.  I don\u2019t know when Bill wrote that, but there\u2019s never been a more precipitous time to pull out.  Democrats would be silenced and there\u2019d be some complaining on the left and right \u2014even some from me\u2014 but still, it\u2019d be a political masterstroke.  And it\u2019d save a gazillion lives, so I\u2019d happily take political consequences.  <u><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.americanprogress.org\/atf\/cf\/%7BE9245FE4-9A2B-43C7-A521-5D6FF2E06E03%7D\/redeployment.pdf\"><u>Here<\/u><\/a><\/u> is one \u201cstrategic redeployment\u201d plan.  <u><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bostonreview.net\/BR31.1\/korbkatulis.html\"><u>Here\u2019s  another one<\/u><\/a><\/u>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So says Eric Alterman: You know, with Zarqawi dead, \u2014not that he was ever what they said he was or couldn\u2019t have been gotten before\u2014 and a new cabinet in place \u2014not that it can be expected to last\u2014 and Bush\u2019s popularity on an uptick \u2014not that it exceeds the poll\u2019s margin of error\u2014 and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":253,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[401],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-iraq"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sethinca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sethinca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sethinca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sethinca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/253"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sethinca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sethinca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sethinca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sethinca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sethinca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}