Reply #2: They can leave very quickly if they blow up the ammo and GO

[Warpy]

If they are not airlifted, they'll have to fight their way out.

Leaving with all the equipment intact will cost too many lives. It's STUFF, folks, and much more expendable than more lives, ours and theirs.

Yes, they could use it for another war, but without ammo, that will be very difficult to manage. Besides, I'd lay odds most of them are completely sick of war. After whatever government shakes out, those swords will become plowshares in record time. History has shown this more than once.

The US needs to see this as an expensive lesson and leave Empire to somebody else. We will have enough economic trouble at home to keep us occupied for the foreseeable future.

What we need to do most of all is GET OUT. We should never have gone in, we have stayed far too long, and those folks have suffered enough.