Sasless whilst I empathise - the valor and sacrifice of soldiers is NOT a reason to continue war.
We owe it to The Services to NOT put them in harms way and NOT to leave them in harms way especially when military force is NOT the way to 'win'. They are there for when we fail to do the job properly by all the other means and for that I 100% support the Services.
No one is criticis(z)ing who is having to fight. On the contrary.
But we can not say we will see it through or go the extra mile or remain comitted or whatever sound bite sounds nice & continue with the ongoing situation.
There are over 3000 US soldiers dead now, scores of thousands Iraqi's - how many more of both is an acceptable cost? Another 1? 1000? 10000? Where do we stop? Remember that every 1 of those dead conservatively leaves 4 family; bitter, sad, and questioning why.
It is now an pure acedemic debate what was legal. It is a bar room conversation - how we support our troops.
We now, very certainly have to work out what will START to solve the problem that over decades we have contributed through our policies to causing. And the peoples that live in the countries involved have to for once decide amongst themselves how they want to live, or be excluded from the international community,