Peace, with or without honor
Listening to a recent speaker on the declared "need" to not depart from Iraq, I realized that not only was he wrong about the "moral" need for America to stay there (to prevent civil war, suppposedly), but his line of thinking presupposes that the moral high ground is for America to leave Iraq in triumph, or not at all. It takes a profound morality to accept defeat, or failure of occupation, and to depart, and offer whatever reparations are needed. The speaker instead spoke of it being a good thing that America occupy and oppress Iraq until such time as _WE_ decide we like their state of being. But like the British leaving America in defeat in the 1770s, the Japanese leaving China in defeat in WW2, the French leaving Algeria in defeat in the 1950s, America will survive the humuliation and move on.