Tar baby, indeed. Time to cancel the troop rotation.
One Way … (from Atrios)
Troop rotations cancelled:
WASHINGTON — A decision by the Pentagon to
increase the number of U.S. troops in Iraq is a
reversal of its plan to steadily reduce the
U.S. force level there.
Since the war began a year ago, senior military
leaders have given frequent assurances to
troops and their families that Iraq duty would
be no longer than a year.
Now, those assurances have met the reality of
Iraq, where military leaders are planning for
the possibility that anti-U.S. violence will
spread. U.S. troops are stretched thin around
the world, and the Pentagon has few options to
increase the force in Iraq if necessary.
On Monday, a senior official with U.S. Central
Command said that the return home of about
24,000 U.S. troops who were scheduled to leave
in the next few weeks would be delayed as their
replacements arrive. Central Command's
responsibility includes the wars in Iraq and
Afghanistan.
-Atrios Link
