Originally Posted by Sum Ting Wong

In 2009, we had "won", Iraq was relatively stable, and it could have been kept stable and relatively free, had we maintained a presence. It would not have involved anywhere near the costs in blood and treasure that it would require now to accomplish this under the present circumstances.

At the end of the day, you can reduce all of Obama's cascade of failings to the relatively simple fact that the world and the people in it just do not work and act they way he thinks that they do. This appears to be partially due to his marination in insipid liberationist ideology and partly due to the fact that he has been ushered from station to station in life without actually having to achieve anything,