If We Listened to Cindy

Jim Dunnigan shares a Dirty Little Secret about what would happen if we pulled out of Iraq:

The more extreme critics of American strategy in Iraq demand that American forces just leave. "Bring the troops home," is the mantra. What if that were done? It's certainly possible. We withdrew a smaller force from Lebanon in 1984, four months after suffering over 250 dead from suicide bomb attacks. The Lebanese civil war went on without us for another seven years. The fifteen year civil war in Lebanon left about two percent of the population dead, and twenty percent driven from their homes. For a country the size of Iraq, that would translate to half a million dead.