If the mission had been named Operation Kick Saddam Hussein's but out of Iraq, then we won achieved that victory.
But George Bush named it "Operation Iraqi Freedom." We never came close to achieving that end. You can't teach Muslims to act like civilized human beings. The only way to achieve Iraqi Freedom is to convert the majority of the people of Iraq to Christianity or Judaism. Instead of trying to convert these people, we allowed the new government to institute Sharia Law and call themselves an Islamic Republic. Then our own military ordered Bibles to be burned so as not to offend these animals.
We lost Iraq and Afghanistan for the same reasons. We never went there to win.
Oh, yeah ... that'll work. That's like putting the Third Reich back in charge of Germany after World War II, isn't it?
The heartless, ruthlessly efficient leaders like Charles Martel and Count Vlad the Impaler were able to deal effectively with metastasizing Islam.
We should have made a point of building a 50-megaton “Tsar Bomb” (perhaps “salted” with nickel, cobalt and strontium) and then threaten to use it on the Taliban if they didn’t surrender Osama after 9/11 and then used it if they refused. Then deliver the same message to Iran about abandoning their nuclear program. Its all about credibility.
What’s in a name? The Affordable Care Act, really? It’s a political cover. Think of the number of jihadists who are now six feet under. We’ve creamed a ton of radicals and they aren’t coming back to fight another day. Our kill ratios are on the order of 100 to 1. That’s unprecedented.
We’ve set the jihadists and Muslim radicals back a half century. SA is “liberalizing”. This is a long war and will be won over a period of generations. Freedom and knowledge will see to it.