Can You Repeat the Question?

Getting tired of trotting out the same old lineup of boring, logic-driven arguments for completing the mission in Iraq with your pullout-pushing friends?  Here's a fresh incendiary one that's sure to strike a little deeper:

Dumb people support withdrawal.

Well, okay, maybe that's an oversimplification.  But a new Pew Research Poll (via The Plank and Ankle Biting Pundits) finds a correlation between smarts (specifically, knowledge of world affairs) and rejection of the fast withdrawal policy.

[T]he poll found that the savvier Americans are about global affairs (based on their knowledge of key world figures and events), the less likely they are to support a quick withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq. Sixty-six percent of the least knowledgeable folks--i.e., ones who couldn't even ID Vladimir Putin--support a fast withdrawal. Only 48 percent of the best-informed ones took that position. Perhaps that offers some small consolation to the currently besieged stay-the-course crowd.