With what? Our military is waaaay overextended as it is. We never should've halved our military in the 1990s.
I even believe that it is creating a decoy to centralize terrorists.
Agreed. I believe it was Mark Steyn who called it "carefully hung flypaper." Our soldiers can't hunt down the terrorists in Iran, Yemen, Syria, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, etc. But the presence of the U.S. military in Iraq is drawing them to us. Brilliant, IMO.
we own the Middle East now
I'm not as optimistic about this as you are...yet.