have not even been born yet. History proves the United States has rarely, if ever, completely left countries where we spilled blood and spent treasure in either victory or a ceasefire in the past 100 years.
When US troops arrived on the Continent of Europe on June 6, 1944 with the first wave at Normandy Beach, we began a presence which continues to today. US soldiers in Europe first defeated the Nazis, rebuilt Western Germany, conducted the Berlin airlift to save the inhabitants of Berlin, stood by while the Berlin wall went up, remained vigilant for 28 years until the wall came down. US soldiers deployed to the first Gulf war to liberate Kuwait, drew its force down while deploying to Bosnia to prevent genocide in Eastern Europe, and now support the mission in Iraq. US soldiers have been on the Korean peninsula since the Korean War, and will continue to enforce what is only a ceasefire treaty. Kuwait following the first Gulf War? Still there -- it's a major logistical center of operation for the war effort in Iraq.
Vietnam? Well, the image of the last helicopter on the US Embassy roof top shuttling people out and those same helicopters being pushed off US aircraft carriers is the last time you will ever see the United Stated completely leave a foreign country where we had a military presence. The military will not let that happen again under any circumstance. It took until the Gulf war for the military to recover from the effect of that one image alone.
It is in the best interest of the United States to stay in Iraq and the Middle East. US Army soldiers and Marines will be fighting, training and dying in Iraq for a very long time. Americans loathe war, but the reality is we have enemies who want to kill us, and they exist right there (or close enough to there). Better to fight and defeat them where they live then to do it on our shores.
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