“Alternatively we can insist on defeating the enemies of America and the enemies of the Iraqi people and can develop the strategies and the implementation mechanisms necessary to force victory despite the incompetence of the Iraqi government, the unreliability of Iraqi leaders, and the interference of Syria and Iran on behalf of our enemies.”There is a name for this policy – “Neo-Colonialism”.
And before we formally embark on it Iraq, someone needs to convincingly explain why – however desirable the intended result – it will work this time, when it has failed every other time it has been tried for the last half century.
And that mostly in places with prospects much brighter than those in Iraq.
Was it neo-colonialism when we ran Germany and Japan after WW2 , until they could do it themselves, and when we installed favorable authoritarian regimes in Korea, Taiwan, the Phillipines, Greece, etc.? Are we seeking permanent colonies from which we extract resources to the detriment of the locals, or are we doing something else?
Your view is simplistic, and your terminology inapt.