President Barack Obama did a great thing when he first came into office (besides stabilizing the economy). He ended the Iraq War. The Iraq War cost the US 4,487 lives of American soldiers and over $1,000,000,000,000 (1 Trillion dollars) very conservatively. The War was widely unpopular and so when I heard this on Washington Week on PBS I nearly fell out of my seat.
(Watch the first two minutes)
Barack Obama's approval rating is at 42% right now. That's where George W. Bush's approval rating was before Hurricane Katrina. If the President even hints at getting back into Iraq under any circumstances, i.e. training and advisors (isn't that what they said at the beginning of Vietnam) or God forbid, US drone strikes and surveillance to basically help tribes go to war with one another Barack Obama will see his trust ratings plummet.
He'll virtually ensure a Republican President in 2016 and watch his approval rating hit 35% territory, lame duck status no matter where he goes. He'll be excoriated by his own base and elected officials from his own party will avoid him like a cake made with Chinese milk.
It's a pretty high price to pay for a bunch of people that weren't to sad to see the US Military go a couple years ago. But if you want to be GWB for the next three years, barricaded in the White House, trying to ride out a long destructive storm, hey, to each his own.
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