What if we leave Iraq?

It’s a question I’m starting to get from some conservatives who are looking for alternatives to a war that many doubt can be won (left-liberals, by contrast, don’t particularly like the question; they’d rather just leave). Here’s the answer Michael O’Hanlon of the Brookings Institution (no conservative) gave Hugh Hewitt:

[I] think [the consequences] would probably be

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