Just why does he need to say why?
Can you not understand what would happen if he pulled up troops and left?
He would prove that America is only a Paper Tiger and the terrorists would be emboldened. He would prove our word means nothing, he would prove that the battle really was not needed or he would have completed the job.
Yet, if you need to be hand fed some little reason, just wait awhile, listen to the news from Iraq (not from the MSM), look at the events in the world, and maybe it will come to you.
The main thing - it is a lot safer on America to fight all terrorists over there. All can come on over and forget having to sneak into our country. We are ready for them there and it would not be a surprise attack.
"...Can you not understand what would happen if he pulled up troops and left?
...He would prove that America is only a Paper Tiger and the terrorists would be emboldened."
I understand well enough that cutting and running would hand a great victory to Islamic terror. It would not only put the rest of the world in danger, it would seriesly destabilize the entire Middle East. Pulling out is unthinkable in my view.
Also in my view, we are in Iraq as part of an effort to eradicate Islamic terror. Or at least I hope we are. Seems like a worthwhile cause, one the president might address publicly.
The Left, which includes the media, academia, Hollywood and the Democratic Party are all over the place, extremely and constantly visible, making their case and doing it convincingly, not to me, but apparently to many. Therefore, the president needs to get focused and make his case. Taking the citizens for granted doesn't cut it. Neither do platitudes about democracy.