And by the way, what would US allies think of the US and its ability to see a fight through to the end if we just abandon Iraq?? How many other allies will be willing to risk their asses to side with us?? And what of all the Iraqis who have bravely stepped up to the plate to support the US and democracy in Iraq?? What of their fate?? We're just going to leave them to be slaughtered?? And how many other such people in other countries, especially in Afghanistan, are going to be willing to work with us seeing how easily we flee a fight??
And when Al Qaeda redeploys its forces from Iraq to Afghanistan seeing the pattern they need to use to get us to flee a fight, what happens then?? How many US forces will then have to go into a far tougher environment to fight Al Qaeda there because we let them go in Iraq?? And how few Afghans will be willing to step up to that fight knowing how readily we abandon allies??
Put away the visceral and put on your thinking cap. No sensible person sees cut and run as a viable or winning strategy.
Well, then, the only way out of this is to blow Iran and Syria off the face of the earth, I guess.
In addition doesn't Iraq gives US a border with Iran the main source of this BS
WE leave Iraq how do we get to Iran
When the time comes
We are in a World War
Thanks for the reply. The point I was trying to make is that, regardless of prevailing perceptions and number of hostiles towards the US in Iraq, US forces will remain because the alternative would be far more costly, as you pointed out. So if, hypothetically, there were over even 1 million hostiles chanting "death to America" we would still remain. In other words there is no "critical mass" of negative perceptions or hostiles that would force us out. So the numbers will never dictate whether we stay or go, but they will reflect the human toll and cost of each day we stay.