re: #19 HappyWarrior

They will be targeted either way. Lets get real here, it was only a matter of time before we(US) turned into a hated occupational force just like the soviets. You will never win an occupation unless your tactics are brutal and your goal is total submission/empire building. Our forces are simply too humane to accomplish this and it should not be our goal to begin with hence we should leave and make it a point to tar and feather any idiot politician that ever utters the phrase “winning hearts and minds” again. It is not the US job to induce an era of enlightenment in the islamic world. If and when they decide to stop living in the middle ages it will happen on its own. Until then we trade with them but otherwise stay the hell off Islamic lands and use our special forces/drones to merc any future bin ladens.