Quote Originally Posted by Lemur View Post
Maybe you could clarify? You appeared to be arguing that the eight years and trillions of dollars we spend in Iraq were somehow incomplete, or as you phrased it, "We have pulled out early from every intervention."
That is true enough. It was not complete. I didn’t say we should have been there but it was unfinished, just as Afghanistan is unfinished, just as Somalia was unfinished.

If you think it is worth going you had better be willing to write a blank check for time, blood, and treasure. Otherwise just keep out.