Matt: I always like this angle, too. Apparently, we would have really made things better 15 years ago had we kept going....I'm sure the 9/11 attackers would still be alive today, promoting world peace and Bin Laden would be the democratically elected leader of the Middle East Coalition for Understanding an Iraq would be the model for a perfect democracy.
Ridiculous.
Makes absoulutely no sense at all. Sun Tzu thinks he's intelligent, but he's really just a gnat to swat away.
Those guys in the early 90's (which ironically includes Cheney) had it right. Both Cheney and Bush 41 eventually explained why they didn't go to Baghdad.
They both described it to a tee, what would happen. It did happen.
NOW, let's see who gets blamed when all hell breaks out when we totally withdraw our troops.