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It more that I think securing Iraq via bribing Saddam, then forcing him to give the Kurds independence, while using an intact Iraqi Army to handle Iran and A-stan would have produced better outcomes than we see in the ME at the moment.

My hottest take is this: We should have bribed Saddam into letting the US into Iraq to hunt AQ offshoots after 9/11, forced him to allow an independent Kurdistan once our forces were in country, and then used the still intact Iraqi Army and new Kurdish military, in conjunction with our own...