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Quote by: bishop  i think people are pretty convinced that iraq will completely
unravel if we were to leave - which is why they
don't give any other rationale for staying than that.
meanwhile, we'll continue to have our permanent bases and set
up the stage for a war with iran. |
Yeah, people seem to assume that, which may be true. But it's also very obvious we're helping Iraq "unravel," and have been for some time. But those aspects of history are spun out of the picture, basically.
There are some other rationales--standard ones for justifying war:
It'd be cowardly to leave, or it's "un-American." The election rationale hasn't worked out very well, seeing as to how elections don't necessarily improve things.
So the new rationale may be to stay there to better take Iran out (an inherently justified thing to do, according to militarists).
Grandpa h.