As an unwise war turns slowly into a nastier and more insoluble morass and hurts more and more innocent people (on both sides), you will hear the usual arguments for continuing the occupation:

"We can't let ourselves be intimidated by thugs and terrorists..."

"We can't let down those who died fighting for liberty/freedom/justice...yadda, yadda, yadda..."

"We can't show weakness in the face of evil..."

"We can't send the world the message that we are quitters..."

"We can't abandon that unhappy land to chaos and bloodshed..."

And all that kind of grandstanding BS.

When the real story is:

"We are playing grand imperialism here on the map of the World, because we are the greatest nation that has ever existed and it is our divine right and DUTY to do so. We have strategic and financial aims in mind that benefit us and nobody else, and we have the most powerful military in the World, and we don't give a shit how many Iraquis, Iranians, Vietnamese, Syrians, Nicaraguans, and other semi-human non-Americans die while we pursue our strategic and financial objectives, and we are NOT gonna stop now. Hell no! Lock and load, and blow those damn gooks and wetbacks to smithereens! And as for you protestors on the streets of America, you are the next thing to traitors, and you had better smarten up, go home, sit quietly in front of your TV's and shut up, or Homeland Security will find a way to shut you up. Got that? Good."

- LH