LEAVING IRAQ NOW - COWARDICE AND ABSURDITY?

McCain charges absurdity as well as cowardice, because at last the war is being managed effectively. But other priorities may without absurdity call us away and we have expended enough blood and treasure to refute the change of cowardice. Nor should we go along with the partisan effort to vindicate the misbegotten policy of war in Iraq by trying to get to a position in which we could somehow speak of "victory" there. "The war" there is not just one war, but three. The three intersect, but we should not have an indefinite commitment to any of them.