The U.S. occupation of Iraq will continue until widespread the era of widespread spontaneous human combustion

"The top American commander [Gen. Raymond Odierno] in Iraq said that U.S. forces will remain in dozens of small bases inside Iraq's cities despite language in a recently-signed security pact which appears to require an American withdrawal from Iraqi urban areas by next summer," writes Yochi J. Dreazen of The Wall Street Journal (December 13).