Yeah well If u feel like u want to be a loser. The American people distanced themselves from their military in the late 70's after Vietnam. The military suffered as well as the mral of the American people until Regan was elected. I don't want to go through that again. We have to win...losing will encourage these nutbags to continue. If another major attack hits America and its WMD's.They will inter middle easterners. Things will be bad Jockey. The arabs/muslims in this country have not been vocal enough in denoucing terrorism. There is no major public figure of arab/muslim persuasion leading the fight. If a city like LA or Chicago was to be hit...who is going to be in trouble. Its in everybody's best interest to win this war.
So what will winning accomplish? Not like those dudes will hang up their aks and call it a day. The thing is that the war in Iraq is based entirely on lies, so how can you expect the average American to support it? Maybe if things in Iraq looked brighter, then the public would be more optimistic. But things aren't looking good. Every single day you hear of a suicide bomb or IED with an x number of dead or injured.
If our invasion of Iraq was perfectly legit, then maybe the public would support fighting it out. Maybe if Iraq had an isurgency to begin with, then maybe the public would would believe in duking it out. But this is not the case, we invaded Iraq on intelligence reports that have been proven to be complete fabrications. Our invasion of Iraq has probably increased the number of terrorists world wide because we've given them more excuses to hate us.
How can you expect the public to keep supporting a war that has made America so unpopular across the world? Staying in Iraq actually aids the insurgency and it sure as hell aids in creating more dislike for America world wide. More hate = more terrorists bred.
The approach to fighting terrorism shouldn't be invasions, but just strategic strikes on targets. Like if Clinton had killed off Bin Laden, then we wouldn't have 9/11. But no, no one kills his ass and we have 9/11, and then the government emotionally blackmails its people into supporting a bogus war.
One other thing. Please don't underestimate the people. If something like 70%+ of the public disagree with you on something, then you're probably the one who's wrong.