Leaving IraqWhat will happen when U.S. combat troops withdraw?

The coming months should be interesting, considering the million dollar question - did the surge work? The plan of course was to take advantage of the opening that the combination of the Sunni Awakenings, the cleansing of Baghdad and other urban areas had created, since Iraq's center of gravity was, and is, in the cities.

Some would say the Bush administration was so obsessed with getting the SOFA passed that the opportunity the Surge created in buying some time, was squandered, and the all important reconciliation between the Shi'a majority and the Sunni minority hasn't been accomplished.

-- Tyrtaios-rising
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This is the first war in American history to be funded entirely on borrowed money. We couldn't have spent it elsewhere because we never actually had it to begin with (though we might have paid for the stimulus with more than a hundred billion left over had we borrowed an equivalent amount).

I'm afraid we have not yet begun to pay for OIF. That will fall to our children and grandchildren, who will also have to pioneer the post-fossil fuel economy since we still refuse to admit that the oil is running out.

-- quillsinister
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