Re: "...The Iraq War was irrefutably stupid, but I don't know that we can pull out now..."
We must now either decisively win our wars in Iraq & Afghanistan, or leave, and the sooner the better.
It is not possible to achieve stability and democracy in Muslim Lands.
You will get the same results after all is said and done, as you would if you had bombed your way into a huge Negro ghetto area in Chicago or New York City, occupied the area, and refused to stop military actions until the Negroes acted and did as you demanded.
Then you would be using the same logic to claim "We can't get out now...we must stay to ensure that they don't revert to savagery and until they learn how to keep and build beautiful safe neighborhoods which the world will envy".
Good luck on both accounts...it just ain't ever gonna' happen.
We are in Iraq for one reason and for one reason only, and that is to seize the huge oil reserves there on behalf of Big Oil. Period. End of story.
And the reason we are in Afghanistan (remember?...we only went there to catch Bin Laden & Mullah Omar?) is to lay an oil pipeline across South West Asia which bypasses our competitors' territory, and simultaneously seize control of the world opium production market, thus having access to billions of dollars of "off the books" income for financing "black ops" projects worldwide.
The Middle East and the World were actually more stable prior to "Operation Shock & Awe".
Bush bombed and invaded the wrong countries.
Had he done it to Iran, Pakistan, & Saudi Arabia, we would have in effect already defeated the true sponsors and financiers of Islamic Terror, Inc.
We bombed our way in, and that's how we should leave...by bombing our way out.
The U.S.A. is financially bankrupt, fighting wars on several fronts which can not under any circumstances be won, borrowing the money to fight them from our own deadly enemies, all while keeping millions of illegal aliens invading our homeland with no enforcement of laws already on the books.
Last but not least, Bush & frauds are using their entire heap of lies and crimes as an excuse to destroy once and for all the sovereignty of America and the Constitutional Rights of all Americans.
There is no "War on Terror", and there never has been one.
There has only been a "War OF Terror"; directed against the American people.