You would fail in your knowledge of perception...
If you withdraw before the job is done, the day after Al Quida will be on CNN celebrating the retreat of the Americans...Facts be damn. To the jahais it will be a victory over the Great Satan.
Intercontential, Cruise, and sub launched missiles make isolationism, today, impossible. Such policy is naive at best. In the view of rest of the world it would make us cowardly.
As for hind sight...Isn't it wonderful being an armchair General?
If you withdraw before the job is done, the day after Al Quida will be on CNN celebrating the retreat of the Americans...Facts be damn. To the jahais it will be a victory over the Great Satan.
They will?
And won't that not happen no matter when we pull out?
The difference is that those in the Iraq know why we pulled out, because we were done.
Intercontential, Cruise, and sub launched missiles make isolationism, today, impossible. Such policy is naive at best. In the view of rest of the world it would make us cowardly.
And the way to protect ourselves from being hit by these are....?
I haven't seen our Gov't pushing for a anti-missle defense system for a long time.
What protects us now from being hit with those weapons is our own ability to respond in kind.
So, in reality the goal of the U.S. government isn't really to protect U.S. citizens, but to run the world under the guise of protecting U.S.interests.
As for hind sight...Isn't it wonderful being an armchair General?
And it must be wonderful being able to see into the future with such clarity.