You guys and Obama have it backwards, pulling out was the mistake.
You should also quit pretending that our true reasons were to create pure democracies like in a children’s book, we needed to penetrate into that region of war which was and is increasingly focused on conquering Christendom.
We should have stayed there to help protect the sane ones trying to move into the 19th or 20th century, and to keep the ones who want to consolidate and destroy the West, weak and without a base, and especially not a nation base.
you saying our invasion of Iraq was to defend “Christendom”?
What a joke. Iraq’s Christians have nearly been decimated since we invaded and ousted Saddam. For all his evil, he actually protected the country’s Christians from the Islamists. His evil = brutality - was mainly used to keep the Islamists down., By removing him, we triggered a civil war - and the mass killing of Christians (which started as early as 2004, long before Obama came in).
All we need to keep the terrorists over there “at bay” is good intelligence, and the willingness to use our technological advantage to destroy them. We do not need our guys and gals over there getting shot up to protect people who have no real allegiance to us anyway, and who never will.