Oh, What To Do?

Our leaders are saying they need more time to work out all the complexities of "solving the problem" in Iraq in their search for "the way forward", whatever that means.
The Way Forward--versus "The Way Backward"? Seems that this administration has had their directions mixed up all along. I guess they never heard of Pandora's Box!
No one told this Administration of the Arab regard for their land; that it is considered "Sacred Ground", the bombing of our facilities in Saudi Arabia was a clue as to Arab thought? A lot of people weren't paying attention.
Of course the scapegoat for Politicians, when they make bad mistakes, is to blame "Intelligence". How could it have been "bad intelligence" when they didn't have verifiable information--which was obvious when the U.N. Inspectors asked the Administration where the WMD's were. This is when the Administration was in full swing spreading Propaganda about WMD's being in Iraq and about the danger from Iraq's drones?!
The U.N. inspectors weren't finding the WMD's where the Administration was saying they were. Remember, the Administration was insisting that certain buildings were be rebuilt as nuclear facilities? People have such short memories and attention deficit problems.
The big question should have been, and still is, does a country go to war based on facts, or on faith, as this Administration obviously did. That is a good one, Faith-Based governance! No verifiable information, just belief.
Is that what is to come out of our "way Forward" policy, about to be implemented? What is at stake?
We have embarked on a dangerous and very expensive course. We can win, but it will be at the expense of our National Treasure. In other words, we will go bankrupt.
Inflation is bound to grow, just as it did during and after the Vietnam war. You can't run a war without a lot of borrowing, and we are doing just that; to the tune of two billion dollars, or more, a week. The talk is, we can't get out because that will encourage all the bad guys to attack the U.S. and its allies. What is not being said is that if we go broke we wont have the resources to fight them after some conclusion is drawn. Catch-22 again. We are damned if we do and damned if we don't. The best course then would be get out with something left of our treasure; both in terms of men and material. There is no win or victory that is desireable in Iraq. We could devestate the place and kill off a lot of bad guys but there would be no desireable end to the conflict. We aren't able, with the conditions and history that exist, of winning minds and hearts in Iraq and the region. If anyone wants an idea what it takes to govern in that region take a look at the successful governments that exist now and did exist. Maybe someone ought to ask Saddam Hussein what should be done.