United States Government LLC has lost Iraq. That's beyond dispute. You can no more engineer a society than you can engineer an economy. It's too complex. There are too many variables. The Soviets learned this. Others, apparently, have not.
Everyone wants USG LLC out of Iraq. But how fast?
Well, USG LLC is kind of obligated to fix what they broke. To fail to do so is to suffer the worst ignominy.
But staying there only compounds the problems.
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There can be saving of face in the admission of failure. It demonstrates sobriety and strength.
But what to do about the embarassing mess? The society has been destroyed (by you) to the degree that the Iraqi's mind has been reduced to operating on a more base level.
You can't have white faces there anymore. Even if you were to change your objectives from AssBananas and EarIntestines to one of honest reconstruction, your efforts would be blocked. All white faces would be distrusted.
Obviously, you will be paying Syria and Iran to clean up your mess. And you will go home. And, no, you get no bases.
This is the only solution. Everyone wins. Except for Israel, which started the whole thing to begin with. As a matter of fact, in all the simulations yet run in my head, Israel loses.
You've spent some two trillion on this? You'll spend twice that fixing what you broke. Or more.
[slow, sarcastic clapping] Bravo. . Bravo.
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