Staying

Amidst calls by opponents of the war to abandon Iraq and worries by others that we will abandon the Iraqis by pulling out too early, the Army has indicated that we will be there for a while:

[General Peter] Schoomaker, who spoke aboard an Army jet on the trip back to Washington from Kansas City, Mo., made no predictions about the pace of political progress in Iraq. But he said he was confident the Army could provide the current number of forces to fight the insurgency for many more years. The 2007-09 rotation he is planning would go beyond President Bush's term in office, which ends in January 2009.

We are not cutting and running. I hope this comforts those here who worry about that; pisses off the Leftists who love jihadi beheaders; and scares the enemy.