Armchair Generalist found an LA Times article outlining a viable, though distasteful to the president, strategy for extracting ourselves from Iraq while reducing the ongoing chaos.  As I mentioned in a previous post, the outline involves diplomatic normalization with Iran, at least insofar as our mutual interests lie (and we do have some common interests), which alone will make the plan difficult even to pitch, let alone implement.

As the Generalist notes:

There are alternatives which will work. What we need are political leaders who have the gumption to propose them. This current cast of Republican yes-men aren't the ones to do it. That's why we need a Democratic Senate as well as a Democratic House. Help make it happen next week.

Amen.