| General Petraeus and his staff will be testifying before Congress in September. That is one tipping point. The next comes in April of 2008 with required and extensive troop rotations. I have strong reservations on whether or not it will be either politically possible or militarily feasible to retain the current number of US forces in Iraq beyond these tipping points.
It is a given that the US must - sometime - withdraw from Iraq. Just curious here. How many of you think Iraq can maintain unity and how many of you expect a fracturing along ethnic/religious lines?
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