This dipstick bought the liberal BS!
Prior history clearly demonstrates we should not have left Iraq!
Post-WWII Japan and Germany was the lesson. It does not take a rocket scientist to know what would have happened in those two countries if we had left.
The kids in Iraq loved us, the area was stable, we just needed to give it time to heal, to develop more naturally and consistent with modern day practices.
Truth of the matter is, and probably to our shame, we started the job and then left it half finished.
Look it was a leadership shaft job on our military and the nation. Our soldiers were valiant but there was not enough of them to defeat, disarm and occupy like WW II. The force was totally underwhelming. We needed a draft and one Eisenhower instead of constant redeployment.
There were no mushroom clouds, we were not greeted by flowers, oil did not pay for it, we should not be nation building, we don't know what side to be on.
Not really. Japan was a homogeneous nation, with the added advantage of having an Emperor. If the Emperor said quit fighting, then quit fighting it was.
Germany likewise was a homogeneous nation. The occupying forces didn't have to worry about the Bavarians trying to blow up the marketplaces of the Saxons.
The true lesson here was the lesson of Vietnam.