Spike in U.S. Deaths in Iraq Raises Worries

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/27/world/middleeast/27iraq.html?ref=todayspaper

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From: barry levine 
Date: Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 11:02 AM
Subject: re: Spike in U.S. Deaths in Iraq Raises Worries
To: letters@nytimes.com


To the Editor:

    No one should doubt that Moqtada al-Sadr will remobilize his mahdi army if the U.S. doesn't pull out of Iraq on schedule. Nor should we doubt that he will mobilize his mahdi army when we do pull out. The Iraqi civil war is merely on hold, We can keep out finger in that dike a while longer--at the cost of American lives and billions of dollars--or pull it out. But what comes next is civil war in either case. I can't imagine that any American mother wants to send her son to die for such a paltry benefit.

Barry Haskell Levine