We often hear that if we leave Iraq, there will be a bloodbath there. I would like to know where this crystal ball is located, so I can make a few bucks on Wall Street.
The truth is, if we leave Iraq, fewer Americans will die there, and we will save tons of treasure. Beyond that, we cannot say with any certainty what will happen there.
One possibility is that there will be a greater regional war in the Middle East, with Saudi Arabia and Egypt plus smaller Sunni states on one side, and mostly Shiite Iraq and Iran on the other side. That would be awful, but worse things can happen to the US than having a lot of people who hate us viscerally kill each other.
One of the problems with our stupid occupation of Iraq is that a lot of nutjobs who had been killing each other are now killing Americans instead. We have united our enemies. With the US out of the Middle East, they can resume killing each other, and eventually the blood lusts will die out, and peace will return. The alternative is, we stay in Iraq for a hundred years, until we are impoverished and weakened beyond recognition, all the while creating 10 new terrorists for every terrorist we kill in Iraq.
There is an easier way to destroy our enemy. Cut off the head of the terrorist snake: kill Osama bin Laden and anyone else who tries to take his place.
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