| Simple quetion - how can we get out of Iraq, without losing respect and moral in our armed forces (as suffered by America after Vietnam)?
Obviously, one option is to stay the course, and win. This would mean finding and destroying our enemies, and ending corruption in the Iraqi government, while training them to look after themselves.
Me, I can't see this happening. At least, not while Iran and Syria are acting in a similar role to Cambodia in the Vietnam conflict. We need to do something about the porous borders if we are to win. Can we do this without escalating the conflict to include Iran and Syria though?
The obvious answer to me, for us Brits at least, is to simply say straight out, that our military expeditionary forces are based around sustaining a medium, and two small deployments only, and we can not sustain Iraq and Afghanistan at our current level of expenditure. As such, we should simply pull out of Iraq, and put more resources into Afghanistan (as I have said before, I see this as a far more winnable conflict, but we still have to deal with Pakistan, who to a degree are little better than the Iranians).
How else can we get ourselves out? SHort of running with our tails betwen our legs, or winning?
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