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Originally Posted by aceventura3
What I acknowledge is the fact that "policing Iraq" or "winning the peace" in Iraq is not and was not our primary military objective. I think some people thought it was, but the folks making the decisions didn't. So, how do you measure success - by a standard not set by policy makers? I think far too many people are making this far more complicated than it is.
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I would suggest that the geo-politics of the Middle East is very complicated, requiring a thoughtful and deliberative foreign policy!
The problem is the simplistic black/white analysis and policy development process of the Bush administration, particularly in Iraq, at a cost of thousands of lives and billions of $$.