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Your question presumes it was a mistake at all. To be fair (and frankly, honest) you should ask first IF it was a mistake.
IMO, Iraq was not a fuckup. It's working beautifully. Here's why:
Killing terrorists in Falujah is MUCH easier than chasing them through Tora Bora. The terrorists are, ironically enough, "bringing the mountain to mohammed" by coming into Iraq to fight us. This was one of the clearly stated goals of our strategy in Iraq. Beautiful.
Sadaam Hussein is a megalomaniac whose personal goal is domination in the Arab world. He sees himself as the next great pan-arab leader. One of the ways in which he has tried to accomplish this (and this is why it matters), is by getting control of enough oil reserves to leverage his way into the game. This job was left unfinished in 1991, and it is finished now. I mean, who the hell thinks its a good idea to allow that guy to have a grip on the world economy?
It was real-politik in action.
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