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75% of America and the men currently serving as this administrations Secretaries of Defense and State both supported the decision to remove Saddam Hussein; the policy of regime removal in Iraq was bipartisan. Post regime-fall bungling created serious problems and a nigh-on failed state, which was resecured and revitalized only through the sacrifice of the Surge, a sacrifice since squandered by the current President and his advisers. Unfortunately, it is that weakness of will that will be the one of the chief legacies of Operation Iraqi Freedom. The wages of that weakness are currently being paid by Syrian civilians. Other peoples will join their ranks. The American people always thought that the war in Iraq was about Iraq, but for the people in the region (and around the rest of the world) it was about America - did it have the national will to see it's objects through? Was Osama right to have labeled the American people the "Weak Horse"? The people of Afghanistan face a future where a weak and corrupt national government abandons them to the tender mercies of violent jihad. Those who optimistically bet on us over the last decade will (one can hope) manage to flee before they get to watch their children murdered. The American people are War-Weary. Not that they are actually weary of war, mind you (an all-volunteer force means a tiny portion have shouldered that particular burden), but it's such a drag when it comes on the news, and stuff, and, like, we thought war was like, quick and easy, and stuff. Life's problems are supposed to be solved with a rock song and a montage - and if a problem can't be solved that way, maybe we can ignore it and hope it goes away. Others will suffer but, hey, at least we can hear less about war and more about what our pop-stars are doing with their private parts.