From Dick Cheney, who is big in Japan, during his interview with ABC News (an interview which as a side effect has probably sunk John McCain's presidential campaign) --
You can't look at Iraq in isolation. You've got to look at it in terms of its impact, what we're doing in Afghanistan, what we're doing in Pakistan, what we're doing in Saudi Arabia. All those areas are part of the global battlefield, if you will, and you can't quit in one place and then persuade all your allies who are helping you in all those other theaters, if you will, to continue the fight.
Apparently the fact that quitting in Iraq would mean that more troops would be available for those other central fronts in the war on terror doesn't figure in Dick's strategic thinking.
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