Hoodat:
"I believe that nation-building in Iraq was a good investment..."
It doesn't matter whether we had stayed there 5 years, 10 years, 20 years, or 60 years.
They are muslims.
As soon as we withdrew, they would revert right back to their own ways.
They are muslims.
As such, their "allegiance" is owed not to any temporal government, but to someone else. Someone long, long dead, but whose grasp they are still within.