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This is an interesting new twist in modern warfare. Signing an agreement that a war will only continue to a predetermined date and then one side, the side of the Democracies, will withdraw.
The strategy behind this is political, not military, and by doing so the American government consigned some of their best people to die in a useless cause.
Iraq will now go the way of Egypt, Libya, Syria and Iran. Nixon was absolutely right about the Vietnam syndrome and what it would mean to American respect around the world. Now the Americans, like all their Allies, want to fight a war where no one gets hurt and a withdrawal date is decided upon well in advance.
While it may be a spat between the Democrats and Republicans domestically, and the American people will argue back and forth about that, it means a hell of a lot internationally. It really doesnt matter what the Americans think anymore in fact, as its all blather. They have become European and will suffer the similar consequences.
Of course it was political.
We shouldn't get involved in a war unless we're ready to see it through to the end and let the chips fall where they may. If we're going to war, then let's go for total victory, total defeat of the enemy, and the entire nation at war, not just the professional military.
Iraq is one we should have skipped entirely.