You make it sound like we are providing military support there solely and exclusively as a nicey-nice favor to Iraq, not because it is in our national interest to do so. If this is really the case, then I cannot support the military presence in Iraq any further in the first place, regardless of what Iraq's government does or does not do.
Personally I had always thought it was in our interest to prevent Iraq from becoming a failed-state / Al Qaeda safe haven, and that's why we maintain a military presence there. If that's the case, then applying "metrics" to Iraq's government is irrelevant because regardless of whether or not Iraq's government meets any of our "metrics", whatever they might be, the reason for which (I had thought) we have a military presence there in the first place remains.
So you tell me: why are we there? As a favor, or because it's in our interest?
It seems to me that we’ve stayed here, developing this place as long as we have out of some kind of moral obligation to the people of the country. If we were going after AQI, we wouldn’t be spending so much time developing infrastructure, we’d have put that on the civilian gov’t. We do a lot of their work for them.
In other words, the men on the front lines over there don't have the right to express their being pissed off at the loud-mouthed idiot????? Is that wht you are saying?