Strategery

What to do about Iraq? Here is my germ of an idea:

OK, how about this: forswear the "14 bases", abandon the Green Zone, and then make a strategic retreat to the Kurdish north.

We'd take a bit of steam out of the insurgency, give our widely-scattered troops less ground to cover, and put our troops in a place where they are actually welcome. We could make lightning forays to attack in the South when needed as well. We wouldn't be actually abandoning the mission, just reconfiguring it for survival in a harsh environment.

The danger would be that the new Iraqi government wouldn't survive such a change, but it may not survive anyway if we don't do something different than what we've been doing. Like FDR said, the only thing we have to fear is fear itself. Be willing to experiment!