Name:   Talullahhound - Subject:   Finally, Someone has the Guts to Say It Date:   12/2/2015 8:25:46 PM

I might agree with you, if I hadn't seen the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs telling a Congressional hearing that we definitely don't have ISIS under control.  Sometimes decisive action with a clear goal is the best strrategy. 

One of the problem with Iraq was that the State Department failed to plan for the aftermath.  We apparently thought that we would be welcomed with hearts and flowers by the Iraqi people, who would embrace our form of democracy and everything would be great. Instead we dismissed their Army and failed to understand what would be necessary to establish a new govenrment.  Rory Stewart wrote a very good book about his time in the early days of Iraq after the invasion.  Lots of mistakes were made.