George Will writes in a op-ed article for the Washington Post about the continuing war in Iraq. He says that the war has been going on now for 6 and a half years, with 4327 US troops killed, 31,483 wounded and the US has been "nation-building" which is the "worse use of the US military". As of June of this year US troops have been removed from all cities, and by a year from now all combat troops should be out of the country leaving only 50,000 "advisors" to the Iraq government. Those advisors are to be removed from Iraq by the "end of 2011". He makes and interesting observation. "If...the US surge permanently dampened sectarian violence, all US forces can come home sooner than the end of 2011. If, however, the surge did not so succeed, US forces must come home sooner".
(Source: "Time to leave Iraq, too" by George Will of The Washington Post. In the Virginian Pilot on 9/5/09).
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