Peter Bergen
CNN National Security Analyst
What should President Obama do to build on what is widely acknowledged to be Iraq's fragile peace?
As Obama has frequently observed, the United States needs to be "as careful getting out of Iraq as it was careless getting in" because, unlike the case of Vietnam, the United States has substantial strategic interests in Iraq.
The country sits on the world's second largest oil reserves, is close to Israel, plays a lynchpin role in regional stability in a part of the world that sets global energy prices, and its reversion into a failed state would be a prelude to al Qaeda regrouping there.
| Cindy |
January 21st, 2009 4:11 pm ET Is there truly a way to get out of Iraq carefully!? I don't think so...not entirely. We will always have to have a residual group there just like we do elsewhere in the world. So we will never truly be out of Iraq! Cindy...Ga. |
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| Michael |
January 22nd, 2009 8:56 am ET Well I really don't think there's a way out of iraq this fast, and for soldiers to come home like heros like EX-President Bush said. We really didn't win a war, instead we lost lives and a lot of money... a lot of money I recall! |
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