I call BS. The Iraq war was never “won”. And Iraq has been Iran’s biggest ally, ever since we toppled Saddam. The burka came back and other elements of sharia after Saddam was ousted.
We were played like a fiddle.
The only I’d go back in and spend one more drop of blood or trillions more in American treasure we don’t have, is if we seized the country and all of it’s oil etc. We own it. Give the Iraqis just enough to survive, that’s it.
Otherwise, no way, they can fight their own GD internal battles.
The Iraq war was never “won”
Islam has been continuously at war with the rest of the world for 1400 years.
There is no way to win a war with a people who’s basic religious tenets is to instruct it’s believers to fight jihad against all who do not convert to Islam.
The best you can hope for is to contain them and keep them from attacking others, including ourselves.
Think of the Cold War not against atheistic communism but against radical Jihad.
In that we were successful after 10 years of world wide conflict