Potential

Written by: Imn2Paine on Dec 14, 2008 12:09 AM EST

 We stay in Iraq, and we are closer to the middle of the chessboard.

The Dresden Dolls TheGhostInYou (musical interlude).

There definitely exists a threat.

“The president-elect and his team are under no illusions about Iran’s behavior and what Iran has been doing in the region and apparently is doing with weapons programs,” he said.

Mr. Gates, who was speaking at a conference on regional security, said that Mr. Obama and his advisers had done more extensive planning across the government for the transition than any other incoming administration he could remember and asserted that they would therefore be prepared from their first day in office. Mr. Gates, who is staying on as defense secretary, has worked for seven presidents; Mr. Obama will be his eighth.

“So anyone who thought that the upcoming months might present opportunities to ‘test’ the new president would be sorely mistaken,” Mr. Gates said at the conference. “President Obama and his national security team, myself included, will be ready to defend the interests of the United States and our friends and allies from the moment he takes office on Jan. 20.”

-NYTimes

Time and space are our ally as we stay in Iraq and Afganistan.  Better we are forward deployed.

If we retract, I think we give up control of the board.  

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