Originally Posted by
jungle
We might better serve the world by fighting less and letting others sort their own problems, unless they actually become our problem.
There are some who would argue that on 9/11 it became our problem, and others who would say it was our problem long before that.
Regardless, no one can say what has been done is a "failure". Not credibly, anyway. Democracy and representative gov't is a very messy and long process. It will be decades, perhaps, until such a conclusion can be drawn with any sort of credibility.