The Chill Argument

Believe me, I'm a proponent of the chill argument - let the idiot terrorists eventually evaporate from their own stupidity. Or count on regional allies to do the job. That's what Sullivan proposes for Waziristan and essentially proposes for Iraq - moving our troops out of the way.

Problem is, this was our foreign policy from the end of the Gulf War 1 to 9/11 and by all accounts it failed miserably. As far as the new democracy promotion agenda from Iraq to Palestine to Lebanon - who knows? It certainly isn't obvious to me that we are in worse shape than on 9/10. I still think if we play our cards right, we can come out ahead.