Thought you’d like to know: “Exit Strategy” is a business term, usually to do with the winding down of companies – especially partnerships. It’s usually a stipulation in a partnership or incorporation agreement governing how to deal with unexpected circumstances that cause one or more principal partners or shareholders of the company to “exit”, as it were. I see little application of the term to an occupation of one state by another. Perhaps Layton simply believes that our troops would be of better used elsewhere. Given the chaotic nature of international politics and the law of unintended consequences (which the US knows so well yet refuses to heed), I’d be just as happy to have a monkey throw darts at a chart of various foreign policy actions as I would an elected official.