We've Won The War in Iraq

We Have Won The War in Iraq.

We have defeated the Iraqi army. We have disbanded the Iraqi regime. We have established a new, democratically elected government. That government has tried and executed their former dictator. By any historical standard we have won The War.

Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi could just as easily demand withdrawal of U.S. troops based on victory rather than defeat. They won’t because declaring victory in Iraq would be equivalent to declaring victory for President Bush. Partisan politics before country.

We are currently engaged in the really hard part; reconstruction, and it’s never been done well.

The Civil War was unfinished business from the War for American Independence and the consequences of “Southern Reconstruction” were not redressed until the civil rights movement one hundred years later, and, in my opinion, remain even today.

The Treaty of Versailles after World War I basically allowed the winners to loot Germany and create the nationalist (it’s us against the world) environment that brought Hitler’s NAZI party into power.

After World War II the allies abandoned Eastern Europe to Russia. They built the USSR. The ensuing fifty year cold war didn’t turn into a hot war for fear of nuclear annihilation and the very simple principle of Mutually Assured Destruction. The former Soviet Union was not suicidal. Can we say the same about militant jihadist?

If we abandon Iraq during this reconstruction phase does anyone doubt that militant jihadist will take over? They’re already there. What then, suicidal Nazis with nukes?

We have to get this right.