Reply #49: I heard all of these arguments during Viet-Nam

[ProudDad]

We can't tie the hands of our generals. We can't leave because we'd leave the country in chaos. We broke it, we own it.

None of that crap was true then and it's not true now.

If you broke into someone's house, dumped all of their clothes and household goods on the floor and pissed on them, crashed all of their dishes and cookware onto the kitchen floor and shit on them, tore up their furniture, kept the family bound and gagged in the fetal position in the closet in their own filth, crapped in their toilet until it overflowed on their bedding... I don't think "staying the course" would help things much.

the first act to undo what you've done would be to get the hell out of there so they could have their lives back!