Foreign Affairs

Further evidence for the necessity for the US to pull out of Iraq comes in an article in the latest eddition of Foreign Affairs, the most prestigious periodical in the USA on international relations. The author Bruce Riedel clearly states that "Al Qaeda is a more dangerous enemy today than it has ever been before ... thanks largely to Washington's eagerness to go into Iraq" and further recomends that "Rather than reinforce its failures, the United States should disengage from the civil war in Iraq, with a complete, orderly, and phased troop withdrawal".