Drop the Argument From Authority please.
Being on the Right means never having to admit you're wrong?
OK, you got a list of what he's inconsistently said so far. Or rather you even got the worst of what he has said so far.
And yet, at no time in that list did he ever say "Pull the troops out now".
WTF is so difficult to understand about this?
You asked the Inst-question: What has changed?
I told you.
By all means, keep making a fool of yourself by resorting to argument by authority, particularly when your evidence shows you to be wrong. But hey, you've read everything there is to know, right?
Good grief.