We lost the elections in American because we did not win in Iraq. Kinder Gentler Compassionate might be good for politicking, but KGC warfighting is not good for war.
I'll partially agree with you. We won the war against Saddam's regime but we failed to win the peace with Sadr(Iran) and Syria (Hama, Hezbollah which morphed into Al 'insert wacky name' Brigade).