The Center for American Progress will call on Monday for the withdrawal of virtually all American troops from Iraq, for the first time--including US trainers in addition to combat forces.
The new approach places CAP, a think tank with Clinton links, in conflict with the Baker-Hamilton Iraq Study Group and most of the Democratic establishment who have supported retaining thousands of American trainers in a lower-visibility war in Iraq.
The new analysis is driven by a recognition that the United States would be training Iraqi troops in a sectarian civil war with no end in sight.
No one could have predicted that training and arming a bunch of people who hate each other and us might have led to them killing each other and us with greater efficiency.