We should heed the words of Ronald Reagan about his experience with a needless and mistaken military occupation of Lebanon. Sending troops into Lebanon seemed like a good idea in 1983, but in 1990 President Reagan said this in his memoirs:
"…we did not appreciate fully enough the depth of the hatred and complexity of the problems that made the Middle East such a jungle…In the weeks immediately after the bombing, I believed the last thing we should do was turn tail and leave…yet, the irrationality of Middle Eastern politics forced us to rethink our policy there."
Do you think that if Reagan HAD done something, rather than leave Lebanon...that possibly al-queda might have not become what they are??
After all, it has been said that Bin Ladin HAS seen the times that America has "left" rather than stay and fight, as a weakness...and gave him more reason to believe he would take down the mighty USA...