Back in 2007, then-President George W. Bush strongly cautioned against pulling U.S. troops out of Iraq preemptively. Doing so, he warned, would effectively surrender the region to control by Islamic extremists and create a safe haven "to replace the one they lost in Afghanistan":
“It would mean surrendering the future of Iraq to Al Qaeda. It’d mean that we’d be risking mass killings on a horrific scale. It would mean we allow the terrorists to establish a safe haven in Iraq to replace the one they lost in Afghanistan.”
With mass beheadings, vicious murders, and widespread suffering in the Middle East today, Bush’s predictions for what would happen if the United States military did withdraw early are frighteningly accurate.
“It’d mean increasing the probability that American troops would have to return at some later date to confront an enemy that’s even more dangerous,” he said.
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