[LS]

If you are USMC, you must realize that your "suggestion" is in contradiction with every Marine commandant on the ground, not to mention Marines I know who are back from Iraq.

[TomasUSMC]

“It’s kinda bad when you’ve had friends who’ve sacrificed everything, then you’ve had to hand it over to someone else,” Corporal Travis Box, staring at the ground in his forward base, said. “We weren’t doing it for tangible things. We were doing it for intangible things like pride and Honor.”

“Pulling back is a sacrifice in itself,” Corporal Kenneth Thorpe, his head low, added. “You do all the preparation. You work up. You’ve worked your whole life for this. You’re ready for the fight, then you get shut down, suddenly, out of the blue.”

Marines are pissed off to the max. Same feeling, from the same troops, was seen in Vietnam. Then as now, the President let us down again. We could have had this place taken 2 weeks ago.