It’s Not a Timeline, It’s a “Time Horizon”
George Bush has long been opposed to timetables for withdrawal from Iraq. So when prime minister Nouri al-Maliki started pointedly looking at the clock and asking whether American troops didn’t have a plane to catch, obviously Bush couldn’t just set a timetable for withdrawal. However,
President Bush and Iraq’s prime minister have agreed to set a “general time horizon” for bringing more U.S. troops home from the war, a dramatic shift from the administration’s once-ironclad unwillingness to talk about any kind of deadline or timetable.
Of course, the thing about a horizon is that no matter how long you walk toward it, it never gets any closer.
July 19th, 2008 at 2:06 pm
Especially when considered that some of those troops won’t be headed home, they’ll be headed to Afghanistan to pick up where things left off 5 or so years ago.
July 19th, 2008 at 2:17 pm
To say nothing of the 4000+ who won’t be returning home, period.