Reply #10: Confused my comment. [View All]

Maybe you confused my original post to say that I was trying to defend Iraq, if so, I apologize for not being clear.

I meant we're not leaving Iraq in the context of it's pretty much useless to claim we need to leave Iraq. We're there. It's done. Nothing is going to change that. We've fucked the nation up and leaving like that would be worse than what we did in the actual invasion.

I didn't say it's right and I don't think it's right. However, I'm not so naive to think that will change anything.

We haven't left nations we toppled over half a century ago. If you know the military, you know that the military will be in Iraq just as long as that.

The reason I brought it up was claiming we need to leave Iraq is going to get us nowhere in the WOT because it's a useless argument.