Sure, he was hanged, but we stayed on and on and on until we wasted huge amounts of money and thousands of lives trying to create a democracy or something. It just wasn’t worth it in the end.
The Shia majority took majority representation in the Iraqi Parliament. That and control of the oil funds started the civil war. AIQ and ISIS followed. They were laying low until we left in 2009. Then the SHTF and it was vengeance time.
We’re in GE over 70 years countering Russia. We’ll be in the ME for another 100 years countering Russia’s proxies and meddling.
We all know that kid in HS who believed he wins by making everyone else lose. That’s Russia.