From the Boston Globe, which still favors withdrawal:
The reality that has to be confronted is that the disparate armed groups in Iraq will go on committing atrocities against civilians as US troops begin withdrawing, and a residual American force hunkers down in a few well-guarded bases. Should the mayhem reach a certain point, Iraq's neighbors will come under pressure to intervene, if not directly, then by proxy. There is also a possibility that Iraq will devolve into a chronic failed state in the mode of Somalia. And Iranian influence may grow, at least in the south of Iraq, in proportion to the sectarian mayhem.
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