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The third-tour test
Washington Monthly, Nov, 2007 by Charles Peters
Since I hope that someone will give a copy of what I'm writing now to all the Democratic candidates, I ask your forgiveness for repeating a couple of other points.
As to the argument that a mutual slaughter of Sunnis and Shiites might follow our departure if we don't stay long enough, the British had a presence in India for more than 100 years, behaving more wisely than most colonial powers. Still, when they left, the Hindus and Muslims engaged in a mutual slaughter that killed more than a million people.
Finally, I ask our Democratic leaders the same question I posed at the end of this column two months ago. Are they confident enough that our staying in Iraq will lead to a peaceful, stable, and democratic country that they are willing to assure each soldier leaving for Iraq for the third or fourth tour that it is worth risking his life again--every day, for fifteen more months?
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