No, staying there is a victory for terrorists. Our occupation of an Islamic country is their best recruiting tool. There is no way in hell to defeat terrorists militarily. You can't bomb them out of existence, and the "collateral damage" plays right into their hands. Thre will be no military victory for us in Iraq, so we can either withdraw from a poor strategic position or continue losing lives and money to no good end. By the way, lose the "cut and run". That's a phrase for parrots, and indicates intellectual laziness.
You are an idiot. You are basically saying, there is no way to defeat the radical Islamic terrorists, so why bother? Idiots like yourself and Neville Chamberlain, said we couldn't defeat Nazism.
Have you looked at a mid-eastern map lately? WTF do you mean, "poor strategic position"? Seems to me, a military presence smack-dab in the center of radical Islam, separating Syria and Iran, is a pretty damn nice strategic advantage to have in the War on Terror.
It's almost like you are on the verge of understanding it all, you indicate that you believe we can't "bomb them out of existence." Yet, you don't seem to have any understanding of the overall plan, and how that is precisely why Iraq needs to be a thriving Arab democracy. WE can't "change the hearts and minds!" ARABS can! Through democracy, radicalism fails to thrive, you can find great examples of that in our own society. We know this works, it requires real democracy, free elections, giving the people a voice in politics. When that happens, radicals are marginalized and civilized society flourishes.
Your problem is, you want a 'quick fix' to this, you don't see it as a real threat, you don't think a little terrorism here and there is any big deal, and you'd rather just stick your head in the sand and pretend everything is fine. You've got no solution for defeating the threat, other than to cut, run, surrender, retreat, and capitulate to France and the UN as leaders of the world.
The first step to dealing with the problem, is reforming the governments that have been taken over by religious kooks like Armageddonegoninsane. Believe it or not, Islamic radicalism is not the predominate thinking across the middle east, the majority of Arabs want no part of the radical terrorism, so it's not like we are fighting a losing battle. You establish democracy in a few of these oil-rich countries, and you'll start to see a change across the middle east with regard to the radicalism.
Of course, you still have your idiot head in the sand, refusing to acknowledge radical Islamic terrorism as a problem, even though we have lost over 3,000 citizens to it. When you are on your knees in front of a video camera, with a knife at your throat, ready to take your last gurgle, is not the time to become concerned over radical Islamic terror. Unfortunately, some people are just that stupid.
