I guess nobody plays chess anymore. Gotta think several plays ahead, anticipate your opponents next move. The worlds resources are drying up. The climate is acting strange, global warming and such. Parts of Africa on the verge of ...well...horrible, horrible things.
The next world catastrophe just around the corner..tsk..tsk.
What is the future gonna bring, peace? Please...if I were the decision maker..it woulda gone something like this:
Iraq, what a beautiful strategic location. Right in the middle of all that black gold, oil baby...oil. And all that stands in the way is that idiot Saddam. Hell, he's a brute. Kills people. Let's take him out, put our own guys in there...ohhh...all that black gold. Not gonna leave that behind.
OF COURSE WE CAN'T PULL OUT.....
(don't you want America to win the coming wars...sheesh)