Well, the last place I would come from is a leftist prospective but it seems you're doning a neocon koolaid mustache. Let me hand you a napkin.

By your logic we should just "wait things out another 20 years and see what happens". That's brilliant, really. Nevermind the fact that we have no business there in the first place. Whatever Sadam did in the eighties and early ninties,.....we allowed him to do it and gave him the means to do it with. Read your history.

I find it funny so called conservatives will lose their collective minds over budget issues, yet when it comes to foreign policy they have no problem justifying a $1trillion a year in paying for a world wide empire and two unjustified wars going on close to a decade now. As if we had some sort of divine right to stick our noses in other people's business.

Here's a news flash,.........the people of Iraq didn't attack us on 9/11. In fact,.......neither did the people of Afghanistan.

Make no mistake though I'm no pacifist, attack when attacked. Although I've got a serious problem when war becomes nation building. I've got a serious problem when "preemptive or preventative" warfare becomes policy. That's a slippery slope. Is winning war at all cost worth trashing the Constitution and bankrupting the country at the same time? Not to me it isn't.