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April 09, 2008

What are the conditions?
Posted by Patrick Barry

Petraeus keeps reiterating that he's "looking at the security and governance conditions" and that his assessment of those conditions will determine the future pace of withdrawal, but he refuses to say what criteria he is using to determine if those conditions have been met or even what they are in the first place.  Lacking such conditions for withdrawal, we've deprived ourselves of the ability to set expectations for the Iraqi government, settling for an incrementalist approach that prizes ambiguous improvements over substantive achievement.

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