Someone wrote me recently to ask how come I keep linking to Fred Kaplan's articles about Iraq. I wrote back that I link to them because they strike me as extremely accurate, informative and — most of all — realistic. In this latest piece, Kaplan deals with a simple fact that a lot of the arguments about Iraq overlook; that the U.S. will be lessening its presence in Iraq because we are running out of troops to send. An amazing percentage of articles I've read seem to treat that as one of those little details that we can just ignore if we really need to have more soldiers there.