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Originally Posted by GGG
The one thing is true is the Americans did not try to 'win' Iraq, or Afghanistan. They tried to nation build. This is a much larger task. If the goal was to take out the Taliban and Saddam then the US won the wars, they removed the governments in charge.
They could be very successful in doing that in Iran but replacing the government with something better would lead to failure.
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You're a fool if you think that this was a victory/success for United States. All they did was remove governments that stabilized those particular countries. Whether you like those governments or not, they provided stability in those regions. The loss of the sectarian government in the Middle East was a complete and total failure on the Americans part. They will be much better off with Saddam still in power than the vacuum which exists currently in Iraq. The amount of blowback, the sectarian violence, the creation of Isis and its grip in the region, has been a total loss for the United States. When you couple that with the crippling additions to the national debt, almost $3 trillion, there is no way this can be argued as anything but an embarrassing military and diplomatic debacle on the part of the United States.