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I have heard the question asked about what we would do "once redeployed", if al-queda or other groups tried to take over in the vacuum left in Iraq, once we were to "redeploy".

I do believe I heard Hagel say one time...that "we would just go back in"....making it sound SO SIMPLE.

I might say it was from a very "simple" man.

BTW...I also read an article last week that said that a "poll" was taken in Poland about how the people of Poland felt about the USA putting an anti-missle shield there...
and not surprisingly...a large percentage of "those polled" said they didn't want the USA to do that...blah, blah.

I think that we all blame the MSM, and rightfully so...for a lot of the misperceptions..and keeping the real news from being told..

However, I am becoming more convinced that this relatively new era of "polling" for every little thing...is also VERY DANGEROUS...

It tends to make governing become more like anarchies, rather than a republics or democracies...

People that are "polled" do not have even a percent of a percent of the knowledge that our country's leaders do...but the MSM and the leaders' political enemies USE those results to try to force changes in foreign and domestic policies...

NOT GOOD!! IMHO>

If I was granted a wish, I would wish that every person polled would have to answer some skill testing questions that pertained to the poll.

For example: name the vice-president and one Justice of the Supreme Court.

Name two countries that border Iraq.

You get the idea. LOL!

Agreed.

Democrats govern by polls and focus groups based upon what their special interest groups want them to do. That is not an effective way to govern, nor the leadership needed.

I remember during the Jimmy Carter era, as Democrats and the media started in on saying the US Presidency was too much for one person to handle and we needed to consider a co-president to solve all the problems. And yes, they were serious. Carter gave his malaise speech and it was clear he had no clue how to solve double-digit: inflation, interest rates and unemployment. Voters, however, knew better and President Reagan was elected. The rest, as they say, is history.