A Simple Question

If the United States could invade Iraq with no concern for the consequences, then why can’t we just leave Iraq with no concern for the consequences?

The very same people who supported the invasion are the ones who now support staying. The argument for staying is that chaos will ensue and people will die and so on. Let me think about this for a moment. It is perfectly alright to attack a country causing chaos and the killing of many people, but it is not alright to leave a country causing chaos and the killing of many people. I fail to see the logic in this. Especially when you consider that one is an aggressive act and the other is a passive act. In other words when you start a war you are doing the killing, when you end a war ( if any killing happens at all ) you are no longer doing the killing.

The argument can be made that leaving Iraq would cause chaos and killing. The argument can be made that staying in Iraq is causing chaos and killing. There is one key difference, however. We are not sure what would happen in the first case, we damn sure know what is happening in the second case. Just because the right wing war machine says we can’t leave Iraq is no reason to believe that we can’t.