At long last, the military brass, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, his civilian advisers at the Pentagon, and even the State Department agree about U.S. policy toward Iraq. They all support an administration plan that calls for a fairly rapid drawdown of American forces there: Whereas the United States currently has 130,000 troops in Iraq, by the fall it intends to have just 30,000.

Don't miss this month's issue of TNR. Iraq is rapidly falling apart, and the administration seems to show no capability or interest in fixing it. All of the "Balking Hawk" concerns seem to be coming to fruition and we've found no sign of WMD. Now, I was one that bought Powell's presentation to the UN hook line and sinker, so I still think there were WMD's in Iraq somewhere, but if we're having this much trouble finding any evidence of them, were they really the imminent threat they were presented as? I don't think so and, needless to say, neither does the rest of the world. And if we can't find them, where did they go?

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