In the essay "Would Defeat in Iraq Be So Bad?," Leslie Gelb proposes a new approach for what to do in the war in Iraq. Gelb believes that if America follows in Bush's strategy of "staying the course," or turns to the democrat's strategy or as Gelb says, "pulling out by timetables," we will inevitably meet defeat and then disaster. Defeat in Iraq is a disaster that has almost every American quivering at the thought of total chaos in the Middle East. So what is his proposal?
Gelb flashes back to 1975, when the U.S. pulled out of the Vietnam War. Him self and other foreign-policy experts were expecting a total collapse to communism in the East. This of coarse did not happen because of our allies and the surrounding countries of Vietnam that feared and despised communism as much as we did. Gelb believes that the U.S. should do the same now and pull forces out of Iraq. He reminds us of the U.S.'s allies and potential allies that fear the Iraqi Jihads and want defeat over them.......
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