Just because someone is a Republican doesn't make them a Fascist neo-conservative. McCain, R. Paul, and Giuliani are Republican candidates and none of them are very extremely conservative (in fact Paul is a libertarian in GOP disguise)
Um, Ryaz, who said it did? The closest I can find to that sort of comment in this thread would be my assertion that the population of the GOP ranges from neo-liberal to fascist. That does not mean that every Republican is automatically a fascist; one would have to be totally ignorant or willfully demagogic to make that sort of claim, especially as it is not true. I sense an auto-defense mechanism [/joke]
I don't see it as a problem. I hate sounding like a Republican, but I sure as hell wouldn't let Iraq fuck itself up even worse because we left. The war's origins may be misleading, but you can't just leave.
This position assumes that American troops are a source of stability in Iraq. In fact, the American military is deliberately being used as a source of
instability igniting long-dormant conflicts and killing at will. Most of the fighters in Iraq are nationalist; they will cease fighting as soon as the Americans leave. They have said so themselves. The leadership of the groups may be zealots, true, but that doesn't necessarily reflect the position of the rank and file, which is far more anti-occupation than anti-Sunni or Shia or Kurd.
In fact, while we're withdrawing from Iraq, why not withdraw from our 100+ other bases worldwide? Rape, murder, arson, and all sorts of crimes increase dramatically the moment one gets near an American military base in a foreign country. American military power in no way helps the countries where it resides, and any and every American soldier stationed on foreign soil, where he doesn't belong, should be brought home.
