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Originally Posted by Nebe
Don't you guys call that "being a maverick"?
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What Obama did is not cale\led "being a maverick", it's called "being an idiot who completely ignores the empirical evidence that is staring him in the face."
Iraq was stable, though the stability was still fresh and fragile, when Obama took office. Every single rational person would agree that the sole reason for the new-found stability was the overwhelming military presence provided by the Surge. Iraq qas a godawful mess before the surge.
I didn't hear too many military advisors tell Obama that there was little/no downside to withdrawing the way we did. But he is motivated by radical left-wing ideology, not facts and empirical evidence.