text: Instead of the twelve-year-old hypothetical questions, perhaps we should be asking, "do you agree with President Obama's decision to withdraw ALL troops from Iraq?"
  Instead of the gotcha hypothetical questions, the media needs to be asking what will these potential presidential candidates do — as they inherit a mess from a failed foreign and national security policy of the past eight years.
  We can debate all the day long about what happened twelve years ago — but sadly, we WILL have to reengage and redeploy to a region that had been won. And the simple approval of a request for 15,000 troops would have precluded the morass, this savage and barbaric tragedy playing out before our eyes.