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Originally Posted by sortie
The thing for me is that staying in Iraq and Afghanistan is a nightmare because
the factions in these countries will continue to battle until we leave.
We are not really winning because winning is not determined by winning battles
with these groups.
These groups "win" in their mind just by throwing a rock at a US troop.
In other words as long as the enemy is still fighting the enemy believes they are
winning because they are engaged in a "war of attrition".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attrition_warfare
This particular attrition warfare is basically that the enemy prolongs the fighting until we
get tired of killing them or we go broke trying to kill them. |
But here lies the problem. We have a government that looks at all the costs both direct and supplemental and still feels that it is cost effective to be there. What ultimate goal they have set up for Iraq is worth the countless military and civilian lives and the billions of dollars spent and trillions of dollars to be spent.
That's why we continue to see rhetoric when you have one side say we are committed to meet U.S. withdrawal dates and then someone will come out and say well that all depends on the situation on the ground and the current security climate will dictate how many troops leave and how fast.
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We are already broke and I'm fucking tired.
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We are all tired but the government doesn't seem to be.