Would Keeping Troops in Iraq for Decades Help America?
Quentin Hardy, Silicon Valley bureau chief: We’re in Iraq now, just like we were in Germany, Japan, Korea and Vietnam. In the first three we had successes by stitching ourselves into the landscape by providing a police presence and by being a participant in the local economy. In Vietnam we were behind armed camps. We were afraid to go out and we were dreaming of the day we would get out of there. Seems to me history shows us which way works and which way does not. Dennis Kneale, managing editor: Japan attacked us and Germany attacked our allies, so they deserved to have us there for decades. Iraq never attacked. We should get out as soon as possible. We should get out in two years. General Wesley Clark, former Democratic presidential candidate: We are not now in a position to stay in Iraq for decades. Especially now with people shooting at us. Our military leaders just came back and said that we were a part of the problem and they want to get us out. If it would work out in a way that
