Who Lost Iraq? -- Charles Krauthammer, Washington Post
Barack Obama was a principled opponent of the Iraq war from its beginning. But when he became president in January 2009, he was handed a war that was won. The surge had succeeded. Al-Qaeda in Iraq had been routed, driven to humiliating defeat by an Anbar Awakening of Sunnis fighting side-by-side with the infidel Americans. Even more remarkably, the Shiite militias had been taken down, with U.S. backing, by the forces of Shiite Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki. They crushed the Sadr militias from Basra to Sadr City.
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My Comment: Max Boot also agrees with Charles Krauthammer assessment, while Thomas Friedman from the New York Times is just simply glad that we are getting out. As to what is my take .... I agree with Iraq's top military officer that Iraq is [...]
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