MANHATTAN, Kan., Sept. 11 -- Rancher Ralph Brooks sat in a barber chair and defined a quandary that Gen. David H. Petraeus hoped to resolve during his much-anticipated testimony to Congress.
"We can't stay, and we can't leave," said Brooks, 58, a steadfast supporter of President Bush and of conservative Fox News commentator Bill O'Reilly. "If we just cut and run, it'd show the world we don't have the stomach for it. I don't know that I have the stomach to see these guys die, but you can't just cut and run."
A few chairs down at Haynes Style Shop, stylist Virginia Davis saw little logic in Petraeus's call for U.S. troop levels to remain at 160,000 until next summer before dropping to 130,000, perhaps for years to come. She cuts the hair of soldiers' wives, including one she says is too young to be a widow.
"I don't think we should give it another year," said Davis, 52. "It's not going to do any good. Why keep on doing the same thing?"
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