Happy Christmas War is Over

Is it real? Is Obama for real going to bring everyone home? I feel like we've heard this a lot. Like a lot a lot. Like every few months since 2008 in his campaign. I'm happy to have the troops home.

I'm happy to know that my friends who have siblings, parents and friends over there can now know that in a short amount of time, they will all be home and safe (ignoring the mental and physical scars that war undoubtedly leave), but is this a good thing? Is leaving a part of the world that will always be fighting to save our own butts the right move? Is this going to make America look stronger or weaker? Iraqis already seem to hate us, will the few who have welcomed our presence hate us more for abandoning them? Just giving up on nations of people who can't fight on their own? Or is it the right move to let people solve their own problems in their own ways? Is it right to let people kill each other? Can we ever persuade them to stop killing each other and hating each other? Will we save money now we are no longer funding a war we could never win? Or are hundreds maybe thousands of military contractors going to lose their jobs? War is always good for a recession. It boosts production, consumption, industry. It also costs a lot and leaves America begging for loans. It costs a lot to produce those ridiculous machines that kill hundreds of thousands of humans (and prairie dogs).

So am I really happy? Is it really going to be a happy Christmas? Or is this just another attempt of Obama trying to win the re-election? (Let's be honest, with the baboons that keep ping-ponging to the top of the Republican race, and then saying dumb shit about homosexuals being bad people or molesting co-workers or just being plain stupid... Obama or any Democrat for that matter doesn't have to fight hard for the seat in the casa di blanco.)

I know this is a commentary painted in very large strokes. And that without any real evidence supporting any of these questions, I sound pretty wishy-washy, but the simple question still stands: Is war ever good?