Reply #7: I'll take your old jeans! [View All]

[Clark2008]

I wear an 8, but, see, I used to be a 5 before the kidlet. :)

But, yes, I agree with your analogy. We cannot pull lock, stock and barrel out of Georgie's Folly because it would leave that country even more rudderless (if you can believe it) than it is right now. It would turn into another Afghanistan, harboring would-be thugs who HATE us (and we know how powerful hate is).

We never should have gone in, to begin with - I doubt ANYONE on this board would say otherwise - but, now that we're there...Geesch... we have to have an exit strategy that provides us with the best "save face" possible. Sad, isn't it? However, we can't leave those people in that mess and we can't open ourselves up to another extremist regime.

I doubt Bushie-Tushie will do any of this, of course, because he's there for oil and imperialism - we're not building 14 military bases for Shi'ite.