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Originally Posted by Texpat I'd say the Iraq war was a success in December 2005. Islamic fundamentalists didn't care for the new government much and set about to dismantle it so the US remained. |
So now you've taken it upon yourself to rewrite history Tex.
It will be a few more years before that can start happening.
Whether it be members of the Bush admin admitting 'it didn't go to plan', senior military people (usually retired) admitting it's been a debacle, or a broad consensus among the media, general population and rest of the world that it has been a mismanaged, bloody mess anyone talking 'Victory' in Iraq is being disengenous at best.
Thats looking backwards I agree- but why shouldn't this be done, how else can lessons be learnt from it? At least Al Qaeda has been all but defeated (they wouldn't have been there at all if it weren't for the invasion), and reduction in overall violence levels gives hope for a meaningful staged withdrawal from Iraq sooner rather than later. Iraq remains shattered however, it's infrastructure a mess, many areas ethnically cleansed, a sizable segment of it's population displaced, fled the country, dead or maimed. It's future is uncertain.