Reply #3: I think the way to go is a 1-year timetable

[dubeskin]

An immediate and complete pullout could cause even more devastating effects, unpredicatable ones. As much as I disagree with our presence there, if we left, the little security we WERE providing will completely alter the struggle and the power struggle will change. I think that x amounts of troops a month while simoltaneously participating in diplomatic negotiations should do it.

Granted, this is all just a simple opinion. I don't know the exact logistics of the invasion and all that is actually involved, but I think a slow year long pullout would suffice.