RE: Re: Lieberman: We Must Stay in Iraq

...long after everyone else in America has finally realized the futility of the situation.

So what's the alternative? Cut and run? Would you really doom all those people to the beheadings and results of Sharia that are inevitable? You weren't alive to remember it, but when we turned tail and ran from Viet Nam, it wasn't pretty. Every Viet Namese I work with (and that's not just a few) has at least one family member who spent years in the "re-education" camps. Most have multiple family members who did and almost all of them have at least one relative who died at the hands of the North Vietnamese Communists for no other reason than that they were South Viet Namese.

We are in Iraq for all the wrong reasons and we should never have gone there in the first place, just like in Viet Nam. However, we have made promises and created dependencies. If we bail out now, we doom hundreds of thousands, maybe millions of people to violence at the hands of a few thousand nutcases. I don't like the fact that we are there and I despise the Bush Doctrine and everything it means, but to abandon these people now is nothing short of inhuman. If we did that, then everything our nation accomplished before or after would indeed be futile.