George Will: 'Time to leave Iraq'

Days after urging the withdrawal of U.S. combat forces from Afghanistan, one of the nation’s best-known conservative columnists, George F. Will, is calling on the administration to speed up the planned draw down in Iraq. He concludes that America’s work is done... After more than 6 years and 4,300 American dead.

“If … the surge permanently dampened sectarian violence, all U.S. forces can come home sooner than the end of 2011. If, however, the surge did not so succeed, U.S. forces must come home sooner.”

Will maintains that the U.S. combat units serving as advisers to the Iraqis are already irrelevant to the rising chaos. “If there is worse use of the U.S. military than ‘nation-building,’ it is adult supervision and behavior modification of other peoples' politicians.”

In Saturday's edition of the Washington Post, Will's positions were attacked as a "Double Surrender Policy," echoing conservative "cut and run" rhetoric from the 2008 campaign.