The Iraq situation is utterly amazing to me. We spend trillions, years, and several thousand lives and as I understand it, basically 10,000 armed rebels have undone a large part of it in a few days. Was it all for nothing? The news I watched said the Iraqi forces that we helped train and equip dropped their weapons, shed their uniforms and fled with hardly any resistance. I'm sure there are reasons, but I don't get how a half million refugees would flee their homes without giving a little bit of a fight to what seems like a small band of armed bullies.