Iraq Pact

News Type: Opinion — Seeded on Tue Nov 18, 2008 9:44 AM EST

Article Source: National Review Online

Iraq's cabinet approved a security pact to keep U.S. troops in the country another three years. The agreement goes now to the parliament, where it seems likely to win approval.

The United Nations mandate under which American troops were operating lapses at the end of the year. If we hadn't reached an agreement with the Iraqis, our troops no longer would have been able to operate in the country. The negotiations were long, complex, and highly controversial within Iraq. That they were successfully concluded is a blow to the schemers in Iran — and to their cat's-paw, Moqtada al-Sadr — who did all they could to torpedo the pact.

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We hope Barack Obama pays heed. He has been handed an extraordinary opportunity. Few would have thought when President Bush ordered the surge two years ago that there would have been such extensive security gains and that a sovereign Iraqi government — albeit flawed and fragile — would be in a position to begin taking control of its own destiny.
Obama will have the chance to preside over a successful endgame in Iraq. This is the gift the surge has given him, if he doesn’t throw it away.

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