People who argue that America should get out of Iraq now or soon don't understand the stakes of the contest in the Middle East. If we pull out early, we lose. If we lose, terrorism will grow in Iraq and spread unchecked across the Middle East. People think that terrorists attack because American troops are in the country. These people don't understand terrorism. Terrorist attack because they can.
It is similar to having a malignant tumor. The doctor can give up and stop treatment of the tumor because of the cost but then he will probably forced to amputate the afflicted body part. In this case we cannot amputate. In our case, amputation would require complete annihilation of every living thing in the Middle East. We can pull out but only if we are prepared to nuke the people who live there. That is the only way we can contain the terrorism that is growing there.
