Your point is exactly correct. Theirs is a fledgling Democracy whose failure will have repercussions that no politician would want to put his name on and so the point if it is going to fail then let it. On the Political side I would make sure that America knows it was a great experiment that went terribly wrong thanks to the politics not in Iraq... but in America. and when we do leave then the real fireworks will start.
It would be nearly impossible to overstate the adverse effects such and outcome would visit on America and our attempts to fight the WOT.
We’ve got to know that if a pullout comes it will be called a loss and the loss will be pinned directly on President Bush by the MSM/Lefties.
We, and by that I mean Western civilization, is at a crossroads. The next year will tell the tale. I pray, literally, for our troops and the America I grew up in.
Also, those fireworks will start here as well not long after we leave Iraq.
Michael Frazier
But the average insurgency war usually lasts 10 years.