Thrash and Sink?
Ali has posted about the importance of remaining in Iraq. I find this pragmatic case against immediate departure dubious, but it is one that I held myself until a short while ago so I can understand the reasoning perfectly.
The problem with it is that the very fact that this happened shows that the presence of US troops is ineffectual. Whether the use of women unaware of what they were being used to achieve {Kant has some worth, at least: that people should be considered ends in themselves rather than a means to an end is a doctrine that could end much woe} were opted for to evade incinerating worthwhile jihadis or because it was problematic to use shifty men is something that I am not certain of but the fact remains that it did happen.
This does not really seem to be something that the US troops can avert and it would appear that they are inflaming the situation through their presence alone.
I doubt that they will mind but without the coalition presence these proxy mass murderers truly have no excuse and since our attendance appears to have no influence in terms of actual prevention this leaves the road clear, and it leads out of the country which we so thoroughly shattered.
Soldiers are ultimately trained to kill. They are not suitable for reconstruction.