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Originally Posted by Detroitdad
The real questions I have are "how long would the military need?" And "is this even a war that is winnable?
My personal thoughts are 5 years more at double troop strength, at the barest of minimums. And even that is very unlikely to settle the situation down completely.
Having said that I think doing the job right, creating a stable multi-ethnic Iraq is likely to take more than a decade more to do the type of institution building necessary to support such a construction. Absent something like that I think this is not winnable, in the sense that any development will be lasting.
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I agree that it most likely will take a long time. Nothing worth doing is easy - never has been, never will be. Which leads to my real question "Wouldn't it be worth the effort to rid the world of terrorists, or to at least let them know that any of their activity will not be tolerated?"