[GraniteStateConservative]

leaving our allies in the lurch, not fulfilling obligations we've made, and leaving people to the tender mercies of their enemies. The President knows this.

Leaving the 26M Iraqis to the tender mercies of at most 10,000 insurgents? Seems like we should be feeling sorry for the insurgents in that mismatch. Those 26M won't crush the insurgency until they are forced to, and those Iraqis will be wildly successful once they decide they want to put a stop to this. Would a populartion of 50M be enough, then, to crush the insurgency? 100M? 26M is a lot of people. Why is that not enough people?

[johnb838]

I dunno. Same reason we don't have enough people to stand up and put a stop to the foolishness that's going on in Washington, I suppose. Fractionalization, Factionalization, and lack of a common goal. A few have always been able to terrorize & tyrannize the many.