This is the Bush, Cheney, Rice, Rumsfeld, et.al. legacy remaining to haunt us. 4000 dead, our treasury ruined, and our reputation sullied, all for lack of knowing (or caring) anything about the history of Iraq in particular, and the Middle East, in general. If asked, prior to the US & coalition of the willing, none of them knew a Sunni from a Shiite, liberal, fundamentalist or not.
The chaos in the region today is a direct result of their collective ignorant hubris.
Obama was elected in part to get us out of these wars. Only the naive would not know that the exit plan would be messy for years, if not decades, to come. We definitely broke it, and as Powell said, we now own it, present or absent, notwithstanding.
This is the Bush, Cheney, Rice, Rumsfeld, et.al. legacy remaining to haunt us. 4000 dead, our treasury ruined, and our reputation sullied, all for lack of knowing (or caring) anything about the history of Iraq in particular, and the Middle East, in general. If asked, prior to the US & coalition of the willing, none of them knew a Sunni from a Shiite, liberal, fundamentalist or not.
The chaos in the region today is a direct result of their collective ignorant hubris.
Obama was elected in part to get us out of these wars. Only the naive would not know that the exit plan would be messy for years, if not decades, to come. We definitely broke it, and as Powell said, we now own it, present or absent, notwithstanding.