Iraq was destined to be lost the moment we left, unless you want to stay there forever, there is nothing we can do about it.
Maybe, maybe not. As the article goes on to say, The military recommended nearly 20,000 troops, considerably fewer than our 28,500 in Korea, 40,000 in Japan and 54,000 in Germany. The president rejected those proposals, choosing instead 3,000 to 5,000 troops. We seem to be "staying forever" in other countries in order to look after our interests. It seems Obama doesn't care about that. The meager few thousand troops left there will likely be spending all their time defending themselves from "insurgent" attacks rather than helping a country establish democratic reforms. I remember very well the purple ink stained fingers and the broad smiles of the Iraqi people when the got to vote in a REAL election for the first time in four decades. It brought me to tears. It also made me appreciate the rights we seem to take for granted. Rights this President is hacking away at day by day.
It's telling that the current Kurdish leader, Massoud Barzani, - for two decades the staunchest of U.S. allies - visited Tehran to bend a knee to President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. What choice did they have? If America is not going to look out for them, the only other "protection" out there IS Iran. Obama took the thousands of American and Allied lives lost in this war and the tens of BILLIONS of dollars spent in Iraq since the start and, for another "campaign promise" to be checked off the to-do list, tossed them all into the trash bin of history. Something Liberals seem to think shows "progress". I call it treason and cowardice. Please, God, let America survive "progress".