A Fragment On Iraq

I think that the course the war in Iraq has been going will stay pretty much steady, at least until this presidency is over. The people in charge are too stubborn and too dug in to admit they were wrong and pull the troops out, and they won't be allowed by the rest of the nation to really escalate things to try to pacify the country. When it comes right down to it, whatever happens in Iraq, life will continue much the same as anything here. The stakes aren't high enough to make people care about it. It's a different type of war than WWII. Back then, losing would've meant the US would probably cease to exist as a nation. That's why we were willing to go all out. Now, if we stay the course, things will stay the same, if we pull out, things will stay the same, so there's not an incentive to do anything differently. Nothing will change for people in the US, whatever the fuck happens in Iraq. My prediction is that because of that, we'll keep doing what we've been doing until a vast majority of the people become weary of the whole mess, then they'll say we accomplished the mission and bring most of the troops home, leaving a few dozen bases just in case we ever need to go back, or use it to go after another country.