The media is abuzz with reports that Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki wants a timetable for a withdrawal of U.S. troops from his country–some even say that Iraq wants U.S. troops out, period.
Well, I would not pay much attention to what Iraq’s Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki says, or what the Iraqi people want.
After all, we are the liberators, the “installers” of democracy there, and we know exactly what is best for that country.
Why should we listen to what the Iraqi government or the Iraqi people want, when it comes to bringing our troops home–we didn’t even listen to our own people.
After all we have done for that country, we have every right to stay there for one hundred years, if we want to. To build and keep permanent bases there, if we wish to. To continue to fight the terrorists “over there” (the few to none in Iraq), as we said we would when we invaded that country.
After all, didn’t we break it? What is that saying, “you break it, you own it?”
The author is a retired U.S. Air Force officer and a writer.