Absurd hysterics by the Rabid Know Nothings. Counter Insurgency is NOT Total War. Way past time the Arm Chair Pattons tone done their Drama Queen Hysterics and get a grip on reality.
May I suggest that we look at the big picture, not just what is going on in Iraq, but what the people in the Islamic countries are doing? Every day they are engaged in spreading propaganda; supplying arms, intelligence, & funds to terrorist groups; demanding that Muslims in Western countries be accorded special status; encouraging non-assimilation, conversion, and growth of their own numbers; and very intent on acquiring nuclear weapons of their own. They are engaged in total war against us; it behooves us to take them seriously. They want to destroy us & they think they have a strategy that will work.
It's past time to cut this Gordian knot & go after Iran.
Tell that to the Europeans in the late 1930s. Same thing is going on now. Instead of the Nazis arming while the world snoozed, we now have Iran arming themselves with nuclear weapons while the world snoozes.
It will be much worse this time - the Nazis didn't have the capability of taking out NY and DC in a split second. Iran will.