It's going to be more than 8 years. Apparently you missed the memo that we'll be in Iraq for years, possibly decades, again our military the giant Raid can trying to exterminate every single last terrorist.
Americans are opposed to a long-term committment in Iraq and further meddling in the Middle East. You can remain in denial until the Cubs win the World Series but them's the breaks.
Yet they send their whackos to kill us, their customers.
Is this sound business/marketing practice on their part? No, it's radical Islam. They're insane. Certifiably, and since A.D. 632.
And so we are obliged to reign in their insanity. That's what we're doing. And it well make take 30 years, or until we wean ourselves off cheap petroleum .