[MadIsh32]

To think, bombing the hell out of people in the guise of “democracy” actually back fires?

Should have gone into Afghanistan with 300k troops, finished off AQ and the Taliban quickly and once and for all, sealed the border between Afghanistan and Pakistan, and the military could have been out of there by 2006.

Going into Iraq was a stupid mistake by Bush and Cheney. A trillion dollars spent to give Iran a client state in the ME.

[Wallace T.]

The elder Bush and Colin Powell should have let Schwarzkopf march into Baghdad in 1991, overthrow Saddam or force him into exile, and then left. The 1991 Gulf War was the only one the U.S. clearly won since 1945, and timidity prevented us from winning a full victory and led later to two multiyear, no-win wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.