"You'd find the enemy regaining ground, re-establishing sanctuary, building more" roadside bombs, Maj. Gen. Rick Lynch told a Pentagon news conference. "The violence would escalate. It'd be a mess."
Unfortunately, I don't see why this won't happen whenever we leave. What will magically change with time, that will stop them from regaining ground and re-establishing their bases, no matter when we leave? It's not like we're going to wipe them out, and they can wait for years. Are the US leaders expecting some sort of positive critical mass? Because quite frankly I don't see any sign of such a thing, and the Iraqis seem much less unified now than they were at the beginning, AND now they've lost much of their skilled work force. I don't know how many doctors and engineers are left in the country, but it's got to be very few- since even a year ago if I remember correctly, they'd had about a 75% loss of dentists, for example. How do you run a country when all the educated people have fled? I mean, even if the people there WANTED to run a country, which they really don't. Each atomized group has its own agenda, and that's not changing any time soon.
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