Ten Months or Ten Years - Thomas Friedman in New York Times

Further to my missive last nite over the views of the Baker Iraq Study commission that we should engage Iran and syria over Iraq (but with no perceptible Plan B), see Thomas Friedman's article below, where he maintains, that we either stay for another 10 months and phase down, hand over control and make the Iraqis understand that we are serious about it, or we reinvade the country, and stay 10 years. As always, whether you agree with him or not, this is a well written, thought provoking article, where he adds a new way to describe the problem with the Arab Muslim world, calling it a "progress-resistant" civilization -- for the past 500-1000 years, in most estimations -- rather than a "progress-prone" civilization, like those of the socially capital-rich (if materially poor) Japan and Germany after WWII.

Ten Months or Ten Years - New York Times