However, thinking people understand that the war in Iraq was largely won after the surge, basing would have been the answer to a post Iraqi Middle East peace much as the Marshall plan reshaped Europe after WWII but we will never know because a Liberal ideologue hell bent on destroying anything that Bush had done went and removed all of our troops never negotiated basing rights and effectively lost a war that had been won. Now we have ISIS and worse we have Russia relaunching their ambitious global domination plan by partnering with Iran anyone that refuses to learn the lessons of history is damned to repeat them, but let’s make sure we tell the accurate history and place the messes squarely at the feet of those that caused them.
I agree with you but, that is always a possibility in any war. The problem as I see it was that after winning we should have had an end game that was established before he left office. To leave it up to the next Admin was not in the best interest of our troops or the Iraqi people.
I did not like the fact that our troops became pawns in this situation. I know Bush loved the troops but he left them exposed.