I’m no defender of Obama, but I would like to better understand the Bush strategy. Eventually we would have to leave there, be it under Obama, McCain, Romney, or Clinton.
It’s clear now that Iraqis have no stomach to take on ISIS...so should we simply have stayed and been pin-pricked for decades?
The basic issue in Iraq today is that the guy who was most effective at dealing with insurgent groups like ISIS was Saddam Hussein, not George W. Bush.