I don't see Iraq as lost. A mess certainly. But not lost. If it was lost, we would have seen civil war after the Golden Mosque bombing, or at the very least the necessity of the US forces to be used in mass to prevent one. Neither happened. No, Iraq is not lost. Their parlement will meet on the 16th (ahead of the 19th date) and they will pick a government, and they will move forward. Our troops will continue to train the Iraqi Police and Army and more and more FOBs will be transferred to the Iraqis. In a few months many of our forces will be out of Iraq.
No, Iraq is not lost, not by a long shot.
I disagree, because they wont stem the flow of foreign fighters via the damascus network. Syria has training camps, we see them and know they are there. They are transporting thousands of algerians, saudis and other terrorist through Syria and WE are not doing shit about it.