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Originally Posted by legion
I disagree. I can't see how any reasonable person can think that leaving Iraq right now will somehow make it better for us or for them. Leaving could lead immediately to an all-out war in the middle east. At the very least, the country will devolve into a civil war--and I have little confidence that Iran and Syria will mind their own business (they are not now). I like Huckabee's analogy, because leaving Iraq is like stuffing an iPod you broke into your pocket and running out the door: running away compounds the issues, it does not solve them.
I'd really like to hear someone explain how leaving immediately turns Iraq into a stable place and doesn't come back, to bite us.
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I don't think Paul claimed leaving Iraq now was gonna make it a better place. His attitude was it's not our problem. Huckabee's was "we broke it, we bought it." Paul countered by saying it was the people's duty to correct previous mistakes through their elected representatives. He also mentioned how much we spent on the FBI and CIA and what little we got for it. I thought it was a classic Libertarian argument and probably most in line with what the founding fathers would have thought. However, I agree that Huckabee's response was far more practical and realistic.