Well, I doubt that is reality.
The “way” we exited Iraq was a problem.
Afghanistan? Possibly lost cause.
Syria? hurdle is getting neighbors to accept the stability that is already happening after ISIS’s defeat. They still have die hards holding out in far Eastern Syria. We are making progress in eliminating them.
But the pocket that Erdogan the Islamist dictoator of Turkey seeded into a once peaceful Efrin, does not speak well for what they now want to do. A big financial hick-up is coming for Turkey, will that dampen the Neo Ottoman dream?
The way we exited Iraq was not the problem. The problem with Iraq was that the mission was ill concieved, and unobtainable by the means we were willing to employ.
Since we were unwilling to succeed, we should never have been there.