Iraq is almost inarguably a better place than it was on March 19, 2003. “Iraq is still, in all likelihood, almost by any judgment,” evangelical theologian Albert Mohler concluded on the war’s anniversary, “the freest and most democratic of all the nations in that region.” Barring Israel, of course. What Iraqis do with that freedom is up to them, as it should be.
Perhaps in 20 years, things will look different, even better. But the view today is that while Iraq is better off, America is not. And what is American foreign policy for, if not to promote a world that makes it possible for Americans to live the lives we choose, in peace and liberty? By that measure, from the view we have today, we failed.
In the end, the war was too much blood and treasure. That’s true of every war, man’s worst endeavor, but perhaps the Iraq War stings because it wasn’t a war of necessity.
The domestic political fallout of the Iraq War is still with us in deeply damaging ways.
Those damned Bushes!
And Cheneys!
the govt is evil and has been evil for some time....
they run these wars when they want to boost their rich friends and/or want to gain drug routes, oil, minerals, etc....
in doing so, they conveniently killed off so many worthy young men that should have had many children....
repeated wars in ONE CENTURY alone can diminish the best gene pool ....
and here we are.....7million American men between the ages of 22 and 50 are not working nor looking for work....
Oh please