Friday, July 13, 2007

What Happens if we Leave Iraq

Frank Sesno of CNN tackles the question:

Iran will not suddenly make nice. Al Qaeda will not call the whole thing off...

There is enormous concern in the region. We don't talk about that very much, but I was having a conversation last night -- a fascinating one -- with a senior Arab diplomat who is very worried that the United States could precipitously cut and run -- not his words -- but leave, and that, he says, would leave a vacuum and nature abhors a vacuum and he is so worried, he says, that this conflict will spread; that Turkey and Iran and others will get involved - and it just gets worse...

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