I concur. what is happening in Iraq now is sheer madness, not to mention, unsustainable, unethical, and is leading to a host of other negative outcomes.

In other words the medicine is killing the patient (Iraq).

The situation reminds me of a Al Capp character called Fearless Fosdick in his comic strip years ago: There was a can of poisoned beans somewhere in the city. Fearless being a "conscientious" cop wished to prevent any citizen from being poisoned, so he peeked into the windows of people's homes, and shot anyone he saw who was about to eat any beans.