Letters to the Editor
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Springy:
What risks are these?
The risk that I explicitly referenced several times:
* The most glaring of these risks is the prospect of military conflict with Iran.
* And they are, with increasing explicitness, pining for war with Iran, and our occupation of Iraq -- military, strategically, and politically -- is what enables that conflict. How does that risk -- to say nothing of the multiple other risks from staying -- weigh against the risks of withdrawal?
* Whatever the "benefits" supposedly are from staying, are they worth incurring the substantial risk that we are enabling our country's warmongers to achieve their real goal of spreading our war beyond Iraq to their long list of Middle East Enemies, beginning with Iran?
As is true for any argument, there are many ways coherently to criticize the argument I made. But claiming that I failed to identify what the risks are from staying can only be the by-product of a failure to comprehend basic sentences.