John Kerry has an op-ed in today's New York Times that isn't quite a surrender call but is certainly coming close:

    We find our troops in the middle of an escalating civil war...Half of the service members listed on the Vietnam Memorial Wall died after America's leaders knew our strategy would not work. It was immoral then and it would be immoral now to engage in the same delusion.


He urges that "we get tough with Iraqis," but he has an odd idea of what this means:

    Iraqi politicians should be told that they have until May 15 to put together an effective unity government or we will immediately withdraw our military. If Iraqis aren't willing to build a unity government in the five months since the election, they're probably not willing to build one at all. The civil war will only get worse, and we will have no choice anyway but to leave.

    If Iraq's leaders succeed in putting together a government, then we must agree on another deadline: a schedule for withdrawing American combat forces by year's end.


So Kerry's idea of getting tough is to threaten to run away?