Victor Davis Hanson notes:
…The truth about Iraq is that, for all the tragedy and the loss, the U.S. military performed a miracle. After nearly seven years, a constitutional government endures in that country. It is too often forgotten that all 23 of the writs for war passed by the Congress in 2002 — from enforcing the Gulf I resolutions and stopping the destruction of the Kurds and Marsh Arabs, to preventing the Iraqi state promotion of terrorism, ending suicide bounties on the West Bank, and stopping Iraq from invading or attacking neighbors or trying to acquire WMD — were met and satisfied by the U.S. military. It is also too often forgotten that, as a result, Libya gave up its WMD program; Dr. Khan’s nuclear franchise was shut down; Syria left Lebanon; and American troops in Saudi Arabia, put there as protection against Saddam, were withdrawn…
Our troops behaved magnificently – their courage and devotion has won a major victory. This is also very much President Bush’s victory, as without him it would never have been started, and never carried through. This victory should be the signal of a new Middle East – a reformed Moslem world, but I fear that Obama’s temporizing attitude towards Iran and other threats will lose us the ultimate fruits of victory.
But nothing can take away what the troops did – in spite of all odds and immense difficulties and heart breaking losses, they carried out their duty and won what so many people said could not be won. They have proven themselves the worthy successors of the soldiers of America’s past wars.
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