Don Young is right, no real mission statement or end point just grinding out time creating casualties on all sides. If 100,000 troops couldn't do it, whatever it is, doubling the # there now will do nothing constructive. These folks live in the 8 th century and like it, we can't drag them into the 21 st and make it stick. Saudi Arabia is still sending it's "bad guys" there to kill our loved ones. Pakistan is no better, wasn't that where that darned liberal president... oh I'm so bad at names... the one after the guy that started several wars and forgot to end them.. the guy that was a Muslim and was born in Africa somewhere..still can't get it.....anyway that's where he got the guy that did 911 to us.
Our intelligence services said , out loud (thank God for patriotic leakers) that destabilizing Iraq would probably create civil war and they were right. Now however Turkey , Iran, Yemen, Libya, Syria and Saudi Arabia are involved. Isreal and the Palestine people can't solve their problems