What do you say to people who say, "well we're there now. So what would you have us do? Leave and abandon our mess or stay and try a surge to clean it up?" Here's my attempt.
While I know we should never have started this war to begin with (many political and economic avenues remained), we are there right now never the less. For the last four years we, as a nation, have asked the working poor and those unable to afford a college education without military service, and their families to make all the sacrifices for us (including over 3000 cases of the biggest sacrifice anyone can make). There has been no rationing, no tax increase, and heaven forbid we all give up our gas guzzlers. Meanwhile we have sacrificed privacy, free speech, and habeas corpus rights, but of course if you already have money and power that doesn't concern you.