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For god's sake, people.. please. We don't have any more troops to send! Why is this so hard for people to understand?

UPDATE: Wonderful. Apparently Baker and his Iraq Study Group are going to parrot our president and call for "one last push" with another 20,000 soldiers.

Don't like my "we don't have any extra soldiers to send" argument? And feel like ignoring Gen. Abazaid and his position on the issue? Fine. How about we take this approach: judging by our past experience in Iraq, there is no correlation between trop levels and levels of violence. Which, of course, is not surprising if you accept that Iraq is in the midst of a civil war. They aren't just fighting us, they are fighting each other. And unless we decide to choose sides - and apparently some in the administration are suggesting we venture down that wretched road - we aren't going to be able to stop this.

The idea of a civil war in the heart of the Middle East terrifies everyone. But so long as our troops are in the middle of it, no one else is going to have to do anything about it. But if we start leaving, Syria, Iran, Saudi, and everyone else in the region are going to have to find a way to make it end. They will have no other choice.

But look, this really is quite simple. At some point we have to come home. They don't. They live there. Which means that unless we're willing to stay there forever, they can always outlast us. That wasn't just true in Vietnam for the US or in Afghanistan for the USSR, it was also true in India for Great Britain, and well, for that matter, in America for Great Britain as well. Time is always on the side of the insurgency. If they leave there homes, were else will they go?