[elhombrelibre]

In this case, withdrawal means genocide, with malice of forethought to be laid directly at the feet of those who order the withdrawal. And those who wish for it ignore the consequences and the judgment history will have on us if we allow the self-pity and impatience to lead to that type of human suffering.

[Alter Kaker]

I don't mean to make light of genocide, but genocide is the LEAST bad of the likely results of a premature US withdrawal. More dangerous is the prospect of (1) a terrorist state much more dangerous and destabalizing than the Taliban ever was that (2) leads to regional instability of the likes hitherto unimagined. Al Qaeda has always dreamed of overthrowing moderate Sunni regimes -- with a toehold in Iraq, they'll be able to threaten the survival of the Saudi, Jordanian and Syrian regimes. And with a US withdrawal the ONLY regional counterweight to Al Qaeda supremacy will be a nuclear Iran.

Can you imagine a world where 90% of the world's oil is fought over by forces loyal to Al Qaeda and forces loyal to Tehhran? This isn't a humanitarian problem, this is a global security problem.