Generally I believe the United States should spend less time, money, and effort protecting the world and allocate most of those resources to protecting our own borders and citizens. So I would rather we had not gotten involved in Iraq. But we are there and there is a lot of debate about whether we should remain. Today's Wall Street Journal has an article that is a worthwhile read.
I believe we should outline clear objectives that are attainable in the next year, acheive them, and then get out of there. We live in a global society but it's time for America to move away from trying to solve all the world's problems--especially since much of the world does not even share our opinions on issues.
Iraq is not YET another Vietnam--58000 troops haven't died and we havn't spent 12--20 years there(depending on what dates you use for Vietnam conflict). But it's time to quit arguing about the past, set clear objectives and move toward them NOW.
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