"Doomed to Fail" in Iraq?

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Quote from: Airborne Rifles on November 01, 2017, 09:48:33 AM
Did we fail in Iraq?

hard to assess success or failure when we never really articulated a set of goals at the outset.
The key to surviving this site is to not say something which ends up as someone's tag line - Steelgrave

"their citizens (all of them counted as such) glorified their mythology of 'rights'...and lost track of their duties. No nation, so constituted, can endure." Robert Heinlein, Starship Troopers

Airborne Rifles

Agreed, which makes the premise of the article a bit obnoxious. Saying Maude's Mesopotamian campaign was a "failure" is a bit obnoxious as well, since that campaign accomplished exactly what its stated objectives were (defeat of the Ottoman Empire, securing supplies of oil from Persia).

Whether or not the decision to invade Iraq without such stated objectives was a mistake would be a more valid question. Probably wouldn't get as many clicks, though, and the answer is complicated.