Getting Off Baghdad at the Nearest Exit

Washington think-tank guy William Lind has a three-point plan for getting the hell out of Iraq, with our dignity and our stated objectives intact:

"First, announce that we will leave Iraq soon, and completely...

"Second, open negotiations to set a date by which we will be gone...

"Third... we will also quietly institute the 'ink-blot strategy' in some mixed Sunni-Shiite-Kurdish areas..."

Discuss.