At the end of the day today, it will have been exactly ten years since the United States started the ongoing “short war” in Iraq.
Which might be a good time to take stock as to how things are going so far.
On the plus side, Saddam Hussein is no longer in the picture.
On the minus side, hundreds of thousands of Iraqi lives have been either ended or disrupted, tens of thousands of American men and women have either lost their lives or have had their lives and health irrevocably damaged, and the total cost to the American taxpayer over the coming decades is estimated by various experts to come to approximately six trillion dollars.
You never know what will come out of a short war.
It is fortunate indeed that we didn’t plan a long war.