Consequences of Retreat

EagleSpeak remembers Vietnam, with this main point:

The Law of Unintended Consequences will surely come into play if we
abandon the world to al Qaeda thugs, just as it did when we abandoned South
Vietnam to North Vietnamese thugs. Only this time, it has the potential to be
much, much worse

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There's no way we can even return to a pre-9/11 world, when we were playing defense against the terrorists. The die was cast when we invaded Iraq. As Hillary Clinton stated "You break you bought it". No refunds in war time, just victory or regrets.