Originally Posted by WagnerX5

Going by the French flag you have waiving, I can see why you think retreat is inevitable. Please qualify "better job" in Iraq? You set no definition of what is better? Arabs solve their own problems, that is a contradiction in terms. Arabs haven't solved their own problems for 3000 years not so say Europe has done any better. The area has never been "peaceful" in the written history of its existence. As far as "condemning his actions in Iraq", I don't take the position of some screw ups mean the entire endeavor was incorrect. The world outside the middle-east is safer for the war in Iraq. The war in Iraq and Afghanistan has given terrorist and extremists a central location from which to wage their battles.