You are so right, and this never gets mentioned by anyone, not even the conservative media. Saddam had ceded vast portions of his country to the jihadists in return for under the table oil money, had lost the north, and controlled little but the sunnis. Iraq was imploding quickly and would be a jihadist nation today if we hadn't moved in.
Agreed! But you gotta have an understanding of the 'vision' of the jihadists. Saddam was their useful idiot.
Someone should be touting the fact we 'took' Afganistan with a mere 30,000 troops, instead of the 300,000 USSR troops that were 'defeated' by the jihadists in ten years.
Somalia is another 'God forsaken country' that the jihadists want. We need to make it difficult for them.