Jumbo, have you considered the possibility that
Iraq is a globally important strategic area? It sites right in the
middle of an area of the world that seems to have a very violent tendencies and
is a threat to people outside its borders. How many other regions in
the world produce suicide murderers with amazing frequency? Other trouble spots
in the world tend to confine their violence locally. Having a moderate secular
and tolerant society in the middle east is a long term strategy for
global stability. It is time someone took a long term strategy to bring
this backward part of the world into the 21st century. Remember, Islamic
extremists don't see political borders, only religious ones. They will strike
anyone deemed infidels.