Reply #1: Have you ever considered the logistics of withdrawing?

[rurallib]

Our troops are mostly in the middle of an angry sea. There is essentially only on direction they can go and that is south. There is only so much equipment that can be used troops. So if a batallion gets through, how do you get the equipment back to those that are left? And at some point those left behind simply won't have enough firepower to protect themselves.
Then there is the 20,000+ contractors. What happens to them?
I mean when you start thinking about how the troops are going to get out you start to realize what a total fuck-up this whole thing is. Some of the troops will end up being sitting ducks and may end up being sacrificed so others can get out.
I am certainly no military expert. I just got to thinking the other day about moving 150,000 troops plus equipment plus officials plus contractors and it seems so unwieldy.
And to think that the clowns in charge of getting them out are the same ones that put them there in the first place and are also the same folks who saw a huge disaster coming in New Orleans and let people die.
This group can barely find a crapper in time let alone plan something like this.