Never Can Say Goodbye

There's an interesting article at the BBC site today, headed "US Troops 'might stay in N Iraq'". That's hardly news, of course, the US is not eager to let go of all that lovely oil or to lose a major military base in the region.Col Gary Volesky said his soldiers would stay in Mosul and other nearby cities where al-Qaeda remained a threat if the Iraqi government asked them to. ...The US currently