[randomnumber]

Since I haven't been to all parts of the world, I'm not sure how to respond to that, but how about looking at it this way.

We built a coalition of nations willing to back our play in Iraq based partially on a premise that we would remove a despot and bring some stability. If we abandon them now, it probably would be more difficult to gather allies in case we ever needed to do something similar.

[Supernatural]

What coalition of nations? The ones who already trust us, like Great Britain? France? A few nations send a few troops. Some have already cut and run.

Our friends are already our friends, and our enemies are already our enemies. "East is east and west is west and never the twain shall meet".