Keeping His Promise

by Patrick Appel

Marc Lynch thinks it "somewhat surprising how little attention has been paid to the steady drawdown of U.S. forces from Iraq":

Obama deserves the credit he is likely to claim for drawing down troopson schedule and moving towards a vastly reduced U.S. role in Iraq.  No,the war inside Iraq isn't over yet and American forces aren't all goneyet.  And I'm perfectly willing to give credit to the Bushadministration for the SOFA it eventually negotiated (which I'vepreviously called