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...... "Will you pledge that by January 2013, the end of your first term, more than five years from now, there will be no U.S. troops in Iraq?" MSNBC's Tim Russert, who moderated the debate, asked Senator Barack Obama
"I think it's hard to project four years from now, and I think it would be irresponsible," Sen. Obama responded. "We don't know what contingency will be out there," he continued. The best he could do was declare: "I will drastically reduce our presence there to the mission of protecting our embassy, protecting our civilians, and making sure that we're carrying out counterterrorism activities there (Jasper, William F., 2007, 8)."
The problem with Obamas 16 month plan is that, like most politicians, it is subject to the circumstances of the office he holds once elected. There is no way to predict the outcome of the war Iraq. Once in office, there is every reason to expect that the liberal base that elects Obama will change its direction. A large contingent of that base is looking to Obama not to extricate America from conflict, but to further involve America in conflict. The liberal outcries about the Darfur region of Sudan are frightening

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