Now that they've succeeded, they may well try it again and again. Just waiting for a Beirut style barracks bombing...I hope not. But one wonders how much longer we have to stay in that middle east shitpit ...almost thinking we should give 'em three more months and their lousy election to straighten things out and treat us with respect as their liberations, and if not, well, then, get the heck out and let them all kill each other off, putting women back in burkas, whatever. tired of our young American boys dying right and left...even in a month when the brillian Whiz Kid Pentagon planners two years ago had us, at least on paper, as finally leaving Iraq...
Nice attitude. I'm sure the terrorists would love your post. Look, if we were to leave the Middle East (it will never happen on W's watch) then do you honestly think that the terrorists are going to kill each other off? They'll take over Iraq, regroup and rejoice in their victory over the cowardly infadel, then they'd fly right on over here and start blowing up buildings, malls, schools and any other public place where they can inflict as many civilian casualties as possible. But at least you'd get your wish that our young American boys wouldn't be dying right and left in the Middle East s***pit. I know you're just pissed off that we lost so many soldiers yesterday and I'm just as angry, but cutting and running is not the type of crap we need to be spouting off while our boys are dropping the hammer on the bad guys in Iraq.
It isn't going to be soon. Probably we will have bases in Afghan and Iraq for a couple of decades. We are not going to cut and run. Most "insurgencies" take five to TEN YEARS to defeat, and good models exist for how to do so. It is unrealistic to think we can leave the Iraqis to "sort things out" on their own and in any way solve the problem of Islamofascism, any more than it was realistic to leave Japan after a year. Either we defeat them long-term or we will be suffering such incredible attacks here at home that 9/11 will be considered a "minor attack."
No creditable planner forecast that we would be out of Iraq in two years.
There is no chance we will allow that nation to go back under the hands of Saddamites or into those of Islamic fanatics. We will pay the blood price and not cut and run because of a few casualties.
President Bush has REPEATEDLY told us this will be a long and violent confrontation and that we will stay the course. Apparently you don't believe him but I do.
President Bush's biggest blunder, IMHO, was not dividing Afghanistan and Iraq along ethnic lines. They would then spend the next couple centuries fighting each other.
Clear message: F with us, and we will track you down and kill you - and your country will simply cease to exist...
Your military kids are warriors, mate,not fly by nighters who only show up when it is safe to do so..want some perspective?..I heard that usually over 45000 americans are killed on your highways each year from alcohol related driving offences...sorry 20 regrettable deaths by cowardle Islamic radical vermin is not a good reason to reteat into shameful isolationism[they'll come to the USA to destroy,make no mistake..this is the truth]...your military are the real deal and they are fighting a war...pulling them out of Iraq will not stop that war...sorry but you are so out of sorts here that your post sounds almost irrational..you want your country to "lose" like it "lost" in Vietnam and thereby destroy the moral and self respect of another generation..then pullout and face the music Tokyo Joe