Kautilyan: Ret. Gen Odom: Pull Out: "'We have failed,' Mr. Odom declares bluntly. 'The issue is how high a price we're going to pay. ... Less, by getting out sooner, or more, by getting out later?'
His is not the voice of an isolationist, or a peacenik, or Republican-hater. He is talking from the conservative Hudson Institute, where he was hired years ago by Mitch Daniels, later Mr. Bush's budget director. "