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I don’t understand Drum’s complaint anyway. Here’s a straightforward, constructive suggestion from an Iraqi politico, right in the Post article:

“We don’t want to bring any advisers,” said Nasar al-Rubaie, the leader of Sadr’s legislative bloc. “We are capable to arm our security and military forces. If the Americans withdraw today from Iraq, the next day there will be security in all of Iraq.”

Maybe that’s a good idea and maybe it’s a terrible idea, but it certainly is a direct suggestion about practical steps that the U.S. military can take in the immediate future.

But I suppose if the qualifier “constructive” is intended to limit the suggestions to only those suggestions which cater to the priorities and fixed prejudices of the dominant party, that one won’t cut it after all. And that unfortunately is what it usually does mean in discussions such as this one.