Sorry it took me so long to get back to you. I think
this article by Mark Steyn says how I feel much better than I ever could.
This last paragraph sums it up pretty well;
Whatever it started out as, Iraq is a test of American seriousness. And, if the Great Satan can't win in Vietnam or Iraq, where can it win? That's how China, Russia, Iran, North Korea, Sudan, Venezuela and a whole lot of others look at it. "These Colors Don't Run" is a fine T-shirt slogan, but in reality these colors have spent 40 years running from the jungles of Southeast Asia, the helicopters in the Persian desert, the streets of Mogadishu. ... To add the sands of Mesopotamia to the list will be an act of weakness from which America will never recover.
THERE ARE THINGS WORSE THAN CUT AND RUN...
One of which is exactly what we are doing now. Cutting and running is bad, but making our heroic troops fight bleed and die for islam is much worse. We are now supporting a government who teaches their children that WE are infidels. The Iraqi Constitution states that ISLAM is the official religion AND ...NO LAW SHALL CONTRADICT ISLAM. ...it mandates that their be islamic experts on the Iraqi Supreme Court. and our troops are dying to defend THIS?
This is not freedom. What we are doing is fighting battles FOR our enemy - which is islam. This is much much worse than cut and run. Especially when Iran is obtaining nuclear weapons and the rest of the moslem world is on the same track.
We need to be fighting against islam and against Iran. We are doing neither now, in-fact we are fighting for Iran by killing off their Sunni enemies in Iraq. Not only are we fighting for Iran but we are paying for it at the cost of a billion bucks a week!
At least during the old Persian empire, they paid the Greeks to kill their enemies... This is much worse than cutting and running.... at least the Greeks got paid.