If this stands then we should immediately withdraw all US and private security forces.
These are the fruits of a flawed foreign policy.
America should never get involved in a foreign military operation except to directly protect Americans or American interests.
Protecting American interests should be the sole function of American foreign policy - NOT nation building or attempting to bring Democracy anywhere where it does not exist.
Bush was right to invade Iraq and remove Saddam. He would have been right to invade Iran and Syria.
But he made a serious error thinking you can change the mind-set of these primitives without a prolonged and costly commitment in American lives and money. The re-education of these primitives, as long as they adhere to their 6th century creed is bound to be a most difficult process. The voting public has demonstrated time and again in America that they want no part of these lengthy commiments.
BUT AGAIN, thanks to Bush’s foreign policy failures, we ARE committed to remaining in Iraq as withdrwaing from the same would signal to the other lunatics in the Islamic world that we have lost face and fail to stand up to our promises. We can’t fail to view the big picture here.
And the big picture here is that the west is involved in a war for survival with Islam.
I agree. That's why I'm not too concerned about all this. The Iraqi government will cave in knowing that they do not want the Iranians to fill the power vaccum if we leave prematurely.