Taking a subject seriously and giving them time to disperse and hide them and then acting upon it was idiotic to say the least. You know, egg on the face stuff.
We won zilch from all the death in Iraq other than getting rid of Hussein and his rotten boys. Meanwhile, Iraq is a freaking mess.
Westerners always forget the tribalism of “nations” in the Middle East whose boundaries were formed by western powers rather than reality on the ground.
The Kurds are a good example, as are the Israelis.