It is an extremely fateful time,

The Administration is now starting to lose its base on the war, and if this continues, it will come under increasing pressure to accelerate our withdrawal, Squandered Victory: The American Occupation and the Bungled Effort to Bring Democracy to Iraq.

They want to start withdrawing because they can feel the heat here in the United States,

Yes, speed is a concern for domestic public opinion polls and Iraqi public opinion, ... But they are taking a risk here. They may get a bad product in the end and run the risk of civil war.

To presume that any deal is better than a delayed deal, that's based on a political strategy that we have to get out as ugly as we can, as quickly as we can, ... Squandered Victory: The American Occupation and the Bungled Effort to Bring Democracy to Iraq .

That's how Nigeria fell into civil war in the 1960s.