[benVFR]

I totally disagree with you on the "4 positions" thing.

As far as I can tell everyone wants to rebuild. Since we broke it we should fix it.

The difference is some people realize rebuilding is impossible without stopping the violence. There are 2 camps currently.

1) The US is capable of stopping the violence
2) No amount of US troops or money is capable of stopping the violence.

As long as the violence continues the rebuilding cannot succeed. We're tilting at windmills. We need some kind of much more creative situation. This is of course an insanely hard problem to solve, far more difficult then actually invading a country. A vote to bring the troops home is a vote for trying to find a new solution. Even if it's just reduce the exposure our troops have and then try to "steer" the resulting Civil War in a direction we want by pulling a few strings here or there. Much like the way we fought in Afghanistan.

As far as being hoodwinked.. I think a lot of people WERE hoodwinked. We went into the war on faulty pretenses even if the overall sentiment was good.