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Originally Posted by StewartG
What kind of message does THAT send to our allies who may be looking to us for protection?
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Like, Iraq, for example.
Seeing as al Qaeda tried to take us on in Iraq, and now has been beaten into a bloody pulp, the world is safer for us being there. I don't know what you think military men do in between wars, but they are usually based somewhere besides their homes. Just add Iraq to the list of countries where they will be based. Smack dab in the middle of the Middle East, ready to respond to any threat, quickly.
Not much American military action going on in Iraq, these days. Mostly it is Iraqi forces who, for example, ran the insurgents out of Basra. Something the British could not accomplish after 4 years.
Obama and his supporters are basing their Iraq policy on the realities of two years ago. Even the Washington Post recognizes that and has twice called for Obama to present a new plan, based on current conditions. Instead, we hear the same refrains about how we should never have gone and nothing on the reality that the surge has worked, al Qaeda in Iraq is dead and many of those who were fighting against us have decided it is futile and have joined the government. Hear anything more on those "benchmarks" the Dems were always whining about? No? That is because they are all in place. No need bringing that fact into the public discourse, is there?