I don't see any alternative to leaving Iraq in shambles. This has never been a natural country. It required the iron fist of Saddam Hussein to hold it together and make it "functional." We have removed the iron fist, and we don't have the backbone to make this part of our colonial empire. Whenever we leave this place will devolve into civil war. It is inevitable. We broke Humpty Dumpty, and there is NO WAY to put it back together.