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Looks like the SOFA will be left to the next administration.

I think we just get out. Just look at how much its costing us http://www.nationalpriorities.org/costofwar_home

not only that but the human cost should also be taken into account

The physical cost really isn't significant; human or fiscal. The total monetary cost of war is a little under 1% of GDP. It's the psychological affects which are really dragging us down. In fact the only reason we're running a deficit is the pathological aversion the public has to raising our artificially low taxes.