"Rep. John Murtha Is Right"

So says Charles Pena, late of Cato and currently an adviser to the Straus Military Reform Project and senior fellow with the Coalition for a Realistic Foreign Policy. Writing at TomPaine.com, Pena argues for US outta Iraq, concluding:

If Iraq is the central front in the war on terrorism, then the United States must be willing to let the Iraqis wage the war against the likes of Al Zarqawi and his Al Qaeda followers. And if Al Zarqawi is defeated, we must be willing to accept that the outcome will not likely be the democracy sought by the Bush administration or even a government that is friendly to the United States. But our strategic interests will have been served.

Whole thing here.