Immediate withdrawal? No

But a major withdrawal from Iraq within a year makes a lot of sense to the Center for American Progress. We would extract the vast majority of our troops in a phased 'redeployment' and leave about 10,000 in northern Iraq and some Marines to protect the embassy. There would be help nearby: a brigade and airmen in Kuwait, the navy and Marines in the Persian Gulf.

One of the authors is Lawrence Korb, who has produced a number of provocative articles over the past year or so.