Gotta give Bush and Cheney a lot of credit though. Invading a two cent dictator and covering for Saudi Arabia. All of the Bushes have been one world government saudi butt kissers and Bush’s presidency was catastrophic not only in Iraq but certainly led to the election of obama.
The usual replies about how if we kept 10000 soldiers there isis wouldn’t have been formed may come. and it is probably true.
that doesn’t excuse that incredible lack of understanding at the highest levels of government about how the shias and sunnis would go at each other’s throats once a brutal dictator who kept them in place (and was Iran’s foil) was taken out.
When you go in to FREE a country from it’s dictator it leaves you precious little room to enact the brutal tactics needed to control a country.
” When you go in to FREE a country from it’s dictator it leaves you precious little room to enact the brutal tactics needed to control a country.”
It would have taken the same determination and staying power that we showed after wwii in Japan and Germany, and perhaps the partitioning of Iraq into three states - Kurds, Shiites and Sunnis.
We were nowhere prepared to do that.