The only people who derive any amount of satisfaction from the sacrifices of our troops are the ones those troops are fighting. To suggest that any American feels satifaction at those sacrifices shows your own moral shortcomings. No one but our enemies want this fight, but if we don't continue to fight it and contain the threat by showing a strong hand, the sacrifices in the jihad that will follow will make WWII look like a childs game. I don't for one second believe that might makes right, our government is full of shortcomings and wrongdoing, but our enemies do believe that to kill as many of the "nonbelievers" as they can is the way to their glory and salvation, so as the mightiest nation on earth it is our duty to all future generations everywhere to stop this jihad before it truly gets rolling, just as we stopped the axis powers in WWII (which, unfortunately, did get rolling before we entered the fray).

I will never be satisfied until there is no longer any need for armies or wars, but the sad fact of life is that right now there is a need. The jihadists need to be checked now before they build up the way the axis did in the 1920s & 1930s, and to pull out of Iraq now will create an environment in that region similar to that of Germany after WWI which led to WWII. It's a hard and bloody job, but to not do it condemns our children to a much harder and bloodier world, and though my conscience weighs heavy at the prospect of continuing in Iraq, it weighs far heavier at the propect of what will happen if we don't.