So our president has endorsed a limited plan of withdrawal of troops from Iraq, positioning himself as a great compromiser. Of course, "the surge" was only supposed to be a temporary bump in our military presence, so this is not a shift in policy at all. Moreover, an analysis of Pentagon manpower projections reveals we won't have enough troops to sustain current levels of deployment next spring anyway, so it's not like there was any choice in the matter. Another weak effort by an inept administration to spin a disastrous policy.
