Last year at this time, John McCain and Barack Obama were both supporting a change in Iraq policy. John McCain wanted a change of strategy. One that would enable us to crush the purveyors of violence in Iraq. Barack Obama wanted to pull troops out.
A new strategy was developed. A new commander took over operations. We have come to know it as “the surge”. RESULTS: May 2008 was the lowest U.S. Casualty count since the war began. Most who have made repeated trips (Not Obama) to Iraq has come back with overwhelming support of the troops. We can now think about retreating with our heads high now that the violence is down and the Iraqi forces ability and willingness to fight Al Queda in Iraq.
We will never know what the outcome of pulling troops out would have been, but we can assume that thugs who were killing indiscriminately would fill the void as the U.S. military retreated. Letting terrorist take charge of an oil rich nation would have been incredibly dangerous. Even if we place troops all around the border, Iraq oil revenue could be diverted to shadowing terrorist organization all over the globe.
Change is neither good, nor bad. Consider Barack Obama empty slogan of change and the long term dangers that his proposed change in Iraq could have caused.
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