Gore withdrawal

Gore's position on withdrawal from Iraq is this:

"I would pursue the twin objectives of trying to withdraw our forces as quickly as we possibly can, while at the same time minimizing the risk that we'll make the mess over there even worse and raise even higher the danger of civil war," Gore said.

Dismissing calls for any deadline, Gore added, "It's possible that setting a deadline could set in motion forces that would make it even worse. I think that we should analyze that very carefully. My guess is that a deadline is probably not the right approach; ....


 

It is worth noting that any serious and balanced analysis of Gore's record as a classical liberal/policy hawk would conclude that he would find the Euston Manifesto quite appealing. If I had his email address I'd email him the link myself (It's highly unlikely that any of my pro-Euston diaries are going to get recommended to the Daily Kos front page and catch his attention, after all :)

The video of Gore's appearance on ABC has also been posted online.

It should be noted that Gore is being absolutely consistent. Of this, pro-Iraq war liberal Peter Beinart (TNR magazine) said in an interview with Kevin Drum:

Anything one writes deserves to be judged by itself. The Democratic Party nominated someone in 2004 who had been flat wrong in his opposition to the Gulf War in 1991, I think most people would acknowledge that. Many people who were very prominent figures in the Democratic foreign policy debate and the Democratic Party in general--most of the people who were there at that time in 1991 were wrong about that. The vast majority of the party was wrong, and yet it still seems to me that we have things to learn from people like Sam Nunn or John Kerry. If you were to go from the Gulf War through Kosovo and Iraq, you would find that a large number of people in every facet of the liberal Democratic universe were wrong, on at least one of those wars. Very, very few people were right about all three of them. The people who were--and I think Al Gore is in this category--deserve a significant amount of credit, but the truth of the matter is, if you were looking for an untainted record, you would find very few people.


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