NP: Gold Cup: US vs. El Salvador

It's a few days old -- eons in Internet time -- but Talking Points Memo flagged the story about how the U.S. military is making some strange and rather dubious bedfellows in Iraq as those bedfellows square off against al Queda in that country. Steve Benen points out:

Might these militias turn on the U.S. sometime soon? No one knows. Ali Hatem Ali Suleiman, a Sunni militia leader said, "Let's be honest, the enemy now is not the Americans, for the time being." (emphasis added)

To me, this represents a golden opportunity for those favoring withdrawal. Putting aside, for a moment, another recent article that spoke of just how long it would take to get us out of Iraq, I would think someone might make the case that we can, essentially, sneak out while the local forces are busy with other matters. If they might turn on us when they're done with their current fight, let's just not be there when that happens. There's even the added bonus that the Iraqis are united on something without that something being wanting to kill us.