| gotta love the nature of a quagmire.. people keep saying "we need to stay because if we left, it'd completely fall apart".. and in the meantime, the current environment is hardly stable by any stretch of the imagination..
one issue i have with your perspective is that it focuses solely on iraq's interests rather than our own. is it in our interests to stay there and continue wasting billions upon billions (in addition to all the lives we're ruining in the process - iraqis and americans)?
so, that's our trade-off.. if we leave, iraq will certainly descend into a full-blown civil war - but we'll save billions and no more americans would die or be maimed in this useless war. if we stay, iraq will remain in its tenuous state, and we'll continue to waste billions of taxpayer dollars as well as lives. |