We are as unlikely to lose Iraq as we are to win it. Instead, we will be trapped in a tie that falls far short of the unqualified success some predicted, and also short of the unmitigated disaster that some fear will accompany an American loss of nerve. The grey zone between the two outcomes has not been much explored, but it needs to be.
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