I cannot, for the life of me, figure out how we're going to get out of this mess.

If we stay in Iraq obviously more of our people will be killed and injured. As will many more Iraqis. And then I came across this little nugget:

The CIA believes the Iraq insurgency poses an international threat and may produce better-trained Islamic terrorists than the 1980s Afghanistan war that gave rise to Osama bin Laden and Al Qaeda, officials said yesterday.

A classified report from the agency says Iraqi and foreign fighters are developing a broad range of skills, from car bombings and assassinations to coordinated conventional attacks on police and military targets, officials said.

The May report, which has been widely circulated in the intelligence community, also cites a potential threat to the United States.

Great. So now not only are the insurgency highly motivated..they're going to be extremely well trained. They can move on from Iraq and use their advanced training to take on urban areas elsewhere. Just exactly how is local law enforcement supposed to deal with this?

If we leave Iraq then we abandon the people to a complete mess. The government there has no working, effective police force and military. The situation would quickly erode to chaos and a government far worse than Saddam Hussein (with indepth knowledge on how to fight a large scale military) would likely come to power.

We are in one hell of a mess.

(cross posted at PK)

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