Remember back when I had a lot to say about Iraq?

From the day I received my IRR draft notice on 9/11/06 until sometime around August 2007, I was 99.99% sure that I was headed to Iraq.

As you all know, things didn't work out that way. I somehow lucked into basically the best job that could be hoped for, in Afghanistan no less, and I can honestly say that I haven't paid all that much attention to Iraq since I found out I wouldn't be heading there.

It's not that I don't care--I do--it's just that I've been pretty occupied with my current gig, and the problems of Afghanistan are fundamentally different than those of Iraq.

In general, I don't have anything particularly interesting to say about Iraq. People tend to ask soldiers' opinions on these things, and I tend to think that ours are the same as most other people's. I don't think that first hand, tactical level knowledge of the situation does (or should, at least) affect what one thinks about the overall political strategy and policy stuff.

Still...I'm curious to hear what GEN Petraeus and AMB Crocker have to say this week.