Iraq: Bon Voyage?
Editorial, The New York Times | November 10, 2008
By the end of this year the UN mandate allowing US troops to operate in Iraq will expire. ++ Both countries have agreed to a US withdrawal and G. W. Bush has announced that troops will leave by 2011, “leaving only military trainers and air traffic controllers behind.” ++ The US should ask for an extension of its mandate and American troops should keep operating until a final agreement is decided. ++ Obama must introduce a “strategy for withdrawing American troops from Iraq” and come up with a plan for engaging Iran.
