Iraq Troop Withdrawal: The Zero-Sum Game - By Douglas Ollivant | Foreign Policy

Iraq Troop Withdrawal: The Zero-Sum Game - By Douglas Ollivant | Foreign Policy: In short, it is time for the United States to stop being a "helicopter parent" to the Iraqis. To extend the metaphor: The Iraqis have graduated and are now legally of age. Let them go. They will doubtless not do everything perfectly or in the way the United States would prefer. So be it. They are no longer America's wards, no longer its charges, no longer in receivership.

This is how the U.S. war in Iraq ends.