U.S. Combat Forces out of Iraq

After seven years of war, the final combat forces are out of Iraq, but the responsibility of the U.S. forces has not finished there yet. Although the violence is down from where it was before but it is spiking now since the insurgents know that the Americans will be leaving and the Iraqi forces are not equipped yet to deal with the increasing violence. But now going with the history of the U.S. forces, Iraq will always have some kind of American soldiers in their midst, and they may not be so visible as before but behind the scenes they will be working to make sure that the insurgents are not that strong enough to challenge the Iraqi regime in the long run.

The main point is the attention grabbing headlines that the American forces are leaving that is going to make the most impact because the Iraq war had been unpopular from the start and to give such a headline will mean that the people will become now more occupied with what is happening in Afghanistan. So one less war protest to deal with it now and also maybe less expenditure for the ever increasing budget deficit in the future (I hope).