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Bringing troops home "to make them safe" is a weak argument. People in the armed forces know what they are getting into when they sign up. They know what they are getting into when they RE-ENLIST. Which they have been doing.
The real solution to the problem isnt just 'bringing them home', it's letting them do what they need to do on the ground to complete the mission.
Therein lies another problem. What's the farking mission? At first it was "take out saddam" well, we did that.
Next was "set up a government and get a constitution" well, we did that.
Now we need to ensure that the government that we've help set up (or, as the left wingers will say "installed to be puppets") have the resources to run themselves and protect their own nation.
Then, we should be able to bring our troops home.
But, to just pack up and come home and not realize that the situation there would go to complete crap the second our troops were gone, is short sighted.
While every soldier that dies is a tragedy, our nation was built and protected by soldiers who were willing to die, and were on the front lines someplace else, so the front lines wouldn't be in the USA.
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