It's common practice among businesses that every so often, their logo/trademark/slogan get's a bold, fresh update. Pepsi is a recent example, with it's logo redesign (an ooooo-glay looking one, in my opinion). I won't bore you with the others - we see 'em all around us all the time.
What does this have to do with our combat troops saying Sayonara to Iraq?
That's what this is, and that's all this is. A Changing Of The Brand.
We still have 50,000 soldiers there doing "advisory" work for the Iraq defense forces (read: maintaining our hold over the oil fields and an embassy bigger than the Vatican). We aren't ever getting out of Iraq - the location is too strategic, say the neocons - we can project power in the area and further protect Israel.
How much longer can we afford it? The neocons are the first to bitch about the national debt and unfunded mandates. Our military adventures, especially in Iraq and Afghanistan, are the biggest unfunded mandates in history, since so much of the funding is off-budget.
Stay tuned.
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