It seems as if your boy is ‘counting cost’ at 16 y/o.
I’m not holding that against him, but it sounds as if that’s what he’s doing.
I’m uncertain if its time to ‘count the cost’.
I’m not sure what you mean by “counting cost”. I’m guessing it means “what a waste of our troops lives - and for what?”
If so, he didn’t mean it like that. He meant it was a mistake we shouldn’t be leaving Iraq yet as it will just become another muslim rathole and be our enemy in a short while. (An I hope he is wrong and Ollie is right).
(And perhaps it will ALWAYS be a muslim rathole, but it would be nice if it was a bit more to our liking.)
Granted, we went in and took care of Saddam and his real threat to us and our allies. So perhaps that is victory enough. But it would just be nice if we don’t have to go back there in another 10 or 20 years to “finish” it.
I wonder what the U.S. has promised the Iraqi forces in terms of supplies, etc. that Obama will stop sending in an effort to “balance the budget”.