It's a lose - lose situation that we didn't need to embark on, but we did and now what?
Just looking at the sides without any bias (or at least trying to):
If we withdraw now 3 things are apparent:
1) we show weakness (in some people's opinions and perhaps we do)
2) we allow the Iraqis to continue a civil war and have turned our backs on (yet again) those who believed we were there to help and wanted a better country.
3) Our allies will wonder why we didn't finish the war.
However if we stay 3 things are apparent:
1) We keep sending men and women over and the fighting gets worse
2) We show no diplomacy, take the oil and have even our best allies starting to doubt there will be a good ending to this.
3) More of our men and women will die in a foreign land fighting in a war that shouldn't have happened.
No matter how you look at it, I have a feeling for the next decade at least we are in serious trouble.
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I just love people who use the excuse "I use/do this because I LOVE the feeling/joy/happiness it brings me" and expect you to be ok with that as you watch them destroy their life blindly following. My response is, "I like to put forks in an eletrical socket, just LOVE that feeling, can't ever get enough of it, so will you let me put this copper fork in that electric socket?"
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