Ain’t Islam swell? We really fixed Iraq real good.
You said it all, Travis. No further comments are necessary.
The lesson of the post WWII era is that if we aren’t willing to CRUSH a people like we did German and Japan, and completely control them for at least a generation while totally rebuilding their political and even to some extent social mores, then we ought to stay out of the post-conflict nation-building game.
Starting out a war against an ideology while proclaiming it “peaceful and friendly” was a loser from the beginning, it is plain to see now.