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If we leave Iraq, we're leaving the door open for Iran to slide on in.
You can also kiss the possibility of a free lebanon good bye... and you can bet for sure that the situation in Nigeria, and other regions we don't associate with Iraq, will boil over once it's clear there is no superpower left to act as peace keepers. I assure you, we'd see coups in both Egypt, and Jordan within two years, leaving extremist governments from the Sinia, all the way to Iran.

You have to also understand that it's all about power, and shame in the Arab world. The game is to shame you into doing something, so you can expose, and then exploit your enemies weakness. The worst thing you can do is retreat in response to the mayhem they've created. They'll take it as a reward for their lunacy... and why shouldn't they? It's no coincidence that they picked one of the most important mosques for Muslims (where the spirit of the 12th holiest Imam is supposed to be hiding untill the end of days) as a target, or that they did it the same month Hamas gain power, not to mention the whole cartoon mess.

I wish we could get the hell out of there though. Our military seems incapable of planning more then three days in advance, or coming up with creative strategies.