We'll have to wait and see. In 10-20 years we'll be able to look at Iraq and better understand the implications of our course of action. Until then it's all just bytes in the ether.Perhaps the "course of action" will have resulted in another Middle Eastern generation that regards the US as the "great satan" and has graduated from Semtex to Plutonium as the only way they can see to give their lives meaning. Or perhaps Iraq will have become a peaceful democracy allied to the West. Gosh, won't it be fun to wait and see which it is! ;-)
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
