For the people who say we should stay to help our "allies" in Iraq and Afghanistan, I would like to point out some examples of how our involvements came back to bite us later:
(1) Iran was our ally till the Shah was deposed and we had the hostage crisis. He caused so much resentment among his own people that it allowed Khomeni and the other militants to take power. (2) In the 80s we sent weapons to Bin Laden and the Taliban to use against the Russian Army, and the cost of that war helped Bankrupt the Soviet Union. (3) Saudi Arabia wasn't our friend during the oil embargo of the 70s, which should have been a wake-up call about the dangers of depending on foreign oil. And 19 of the 9-11 hijackers were Saudi. (4) Even Saddam Hussein, at one time was our ally. A fact many people seem to forget. We backed his war with Iran, but as long as he was gassing Iranians no one seemed to care. Then, like Manuel Noriega he started getting delusions of grandeur and invaded Kuwait.
