First we make up reasons to go to war. Then we bungle the war. Then we say we need to stay to unbungle the war. Then we say we need to stay to train the people in the country to take care of themselves. Then we say they're awful slow about learning how to take care of themselves so we need to stay. Then we set up new guidelines which set up new goals expressed in a new language specifically designed to cover up our inability to meet the original goals, a new language which will ensure that we have to stay.
What so many don't seem to realize is that America is indispensable.