Ken Pollack is giddy over future Iraq troop plans
The Very Serious Iraq War Cheerleader, Ken Pollack, is enraptured, if not outright giggly, over the next president’s inheritance — Bush committing to leave 15 brigades in Iraq to serve as a quaint housewarming present for the next president.
"From the interests of the next president, the best thing this president could do for the next is to keep all 15 [combat] brigades there and give Dave Petraeus and Ryan Crocker everything they need," said Kenneth M. Pollack of the Brookings Institution’s Saban Center for Middle East Policy. "It is likely to allow this president to put the next president in the position to do something that is likely to make everybody in the country happy — which is to withdraw troops in a responsible fashion," said Pollack, who has been at odds with fellow Democrats over Iraq policy.
Why would anyone consider withdrawing earlier, when so much killing and maiming of soldiers can be accomplished over the next year? The incoming president can even have an additional gala he or she had not planned — the Writing Letters to Family Members Inaugural Ball.
Pathetic. Brookings actually pays this guy to come up with "ideas" like this?
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