Elonka wrote:
] ] The United States' invasion of Iraq was not a great idea.
] ] Its only virtue was that it was the best available idea
] ] among a series of even worse ideas.
]
] This is pretty much how I feel about it.
] There was a problem in Iraq ...

There are lots of places with "problems" that need "fixed," but we aren't the world's handyman. We simply don't have all the right tools. No one does.

As the Stratfor piece said, "Iraq was not and never should have been thought of as an end in itself."

RE: Strategic Forecasting decides to offer an opinion...