In 2018, my oldest will be 21, my youngest 20. Professor Black reminds me that they were 6 and 5 when the war started.
2018. Mark your calendars.
The Iraqi defense minister said Monday that his nation would not be able to take full responsibility for its internal security until 2012, nor be able on its own to defend Iraq’s borders from external threat until at least 2018.
Those comments from the minister, Abdul Qadir, were among the most specific public projections of a timeline for the American commitment in Iraq by officials in either Washington or Baghdad. And they suggested a longer commitment than either government had previously indicated.
Pentagon officials expressed no surprise at Mr. Qadir’s projections, which were even less optimistic than those he made last year.
This means the surge worked, surely.
[From Send lawyers, guns and money — Dad, get me out of this]
And this isn’t like Vietnam how, again?