[How is that a success? Why should we care at all about that? Whether there is democracy in Iraq is not our problem, it is not a success or a benefit to us if there is.]
You sound like one of those CIA/State Dept. bureaucrats testifying before Adam Schitt's committee.
Since when does "an abiding goal of U.S. foreign policy" outweigh the interests of U.S. citizens here at home? I thought we elected Donald Trump because we got tired of that globalist sh!t.