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Re: Obama on Anbar

By on 1.5.08 @ 9:57PM

That's the implication of his remark, yeah. But surely the Sunnis had/have the most to lose from an American pullout, and it only makes sense that an election-year result in favor of the pullout party at a time of heavy violence would have an impact, among other factors, on the strategic calculus of the tribes.

PS Hillary's back in technobot mode. Nobody grills her on her willingness to leave us in Iraq until 2012. But I get the feeling that nobody has to. She's been eclipsed.

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James Poulos is a doctoral student at Georgetown and the former Political Editor of Culture11. His writing has been published by The American Conservative, The National Interest, The New Atlantis, Partnership for a Secure America, and The Weekly Standard. In addition to AmSpecBlog, he has blogged at The American Scene, Doublethink, and Postmodern Conservative, which he founded. With degrees in political science and law from Duke and USC, he is currently at work on a dissertation about life after Napoleon. In his spare time he anti-blogs at Pish Tosh.

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