Did the Baker Commission Just Float A Cut-and-Run Trial Balloon?

The American Thinker thinks so.

The fundamental reality of the war in Iraq is that withdrawal does not mean the end of the War on Terror. It is quite analagous to withdrawing from Normandy in 1944 when the Allies got bogged down in the hedgerows. Bugging out allows the temporary satisfaction of saying we're no longer bogged down while also ensuring that the enemy gains the initiative and picks the next battlefield.

As the great realist Churchill said after Dunkirk, "Wars are not won by evacuations."