one must ask who are these homegrown groups? then ask the question which country does not have internal problems? is it america's responsibility to sort problems out in foreign lands? if so, why not go into africa and sort things out? same old argument...

millions died as a result of killings among the hindus, muslims and sikhs in 1947 in the subcontinent when the british pulled out. what exactly started to happen in 1948/9 there? life started to get back to normal. troops remained in afghanistan and look at the situation now there. i would argue that something similar would happen if foreign troops were pulled out from iraq.