RE: Maybe you can go read the news and see Iraq today?
Yes, I read the news and Iraq was relatively stable for 3 years after the surge.
It destabilized after our present commander in chief decided to abandon the place against the advise of his generals, the CIA and defense secretary.
Well you go tell Cruz to state that then.
We didn’t find the boatload of WMDs, we lost thousands of Americans, spent huge amounts of money, ended up with the chaos of ISIS and Iran running gal of the place today.
But we had 3 years of relative quiet after spending more money and lives on top of the original war....so we cool?
That’s because to stabilize them would have taken decades. The cost of doing that was never weighed against the American public’s appetite for being in there that long. I agree Obama should have never withdrawn the military and allowed it to collapse. But, that still does not belie the fact that we shouldn’t have gone in there in the first place.