Looking at it now NO WAY should we have gone in, however I believe Obama deliberately left Iraq to sabotage Bush admin.. In doing so destabilized the entire area!!!! We should have stayed in Iraq, we are still in South Korea, Germany, Japan so why not leave forces there to stabilize the area????
I never suggested that Obama handled Iraq properly, but that isn’t the argument in question. Bush and the Neocons created a disaster in Iraq long before Obama came to power.. we were in IRAQ longer than we were in Japan post WWII.... that’s an insane thing. There was never any doubt that the largest most modern military in the world would rapidly conquer Iraq, the fact they had ZERO plan on how to handle things once the active war was over was insane.... and many many many bad decisions were made even if you allow that the going in happened.. and this was all before Obama... and they all helped to bring about Obama.
No one, that I know of, has ever put forth the argument that abandoning Iraq was a good long term move.
Obama has his own Iraq war... it was the Arab Spring.. where he advocated that various “dictators” leave, naively ignoring the fact that these people kept their nations stable and radicals in check. The entire region is far worse off and less stable today thanks to Obama’s foreign policy around the “arab spring”... and history will judge him harshly for it.