Interview with Bob Graham

I'm putting up a link to Mother Jones' interview with the former chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee because it's worth a read, and also because my computer won't let me put up posts over a certain word count right now. Here is a quick excerpt:

"We’ve gotten ourselves so bogged down in the quagmire of Iraq that we’ve allowed our principal enemies to regroup, to recruit thousands of new terrorists, to diversify into a much more flexible and nimble organization. Al Qaeda today is a different Al Qaeda than it was three or four years ago, and has become a more serious opponent for the United States. On the other hand, I don’t think we can just pack our bags and walk away from Iraq. The strategy of trying to train enough Iraqis, and train them adequately with necessary equipment, is probably the only strategy that has a chance for us to make any kind of an early -- and I would define “early” as anytime within the next five years -- exit from Iraq."