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Iraqi Prime Minister Maliki just suggested that the U.S. needs to set a timetable for withdrawal. The surge must be working better than I thought...
Seriously, al-Maliki has hinted about this before, but we never picked it up. Americans are so convinced that our intervention is wanted, that we've been able to turn a deaf ear to hints that we're no longer welcome in Iraq.
And so it goes with every colonial power who has outstayed its welcome. In the last days of Britain's occupation of India, its last viceroy, Lord Louis Mountbatten said to Mahatma Gandhi, "If we just leave, there will be chaos." Gandhi replied, "Yes, but it will be our chaos."
I think it's past time the U.S. stops thinking it is indispensable in Iraq and lets Iraqis handle their chaos in their own way.