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My country spent decades fighting terrorists in Northern Ireland, and in the end it was talking to them that slowed down (and not pretty much ended) the violence.
It gets to the point that no matter why it started, it keeps going because "we hate you because you keep trying to kill us", and "we try to kill you because you try to kill us".
As the wise man said "An eye for an eye leaves the whole world blind" (Ghandi).
Eventualy (probably after this PotUS is long gone) someone will pull out the troops, start talks, and Iraq will become just another nation that Americans and Brits go on holiday to in order to see the real locations of all the war films - just like Viet Nam is now.
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Overhead, the Albatross hangs motionless upon the air,
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In labyrinths of Coral Caves,
The Echo of a distant time
Comes willowing across the sand;
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