Are we still trying to "win" the war in Iraq?

So...another day, another shot at “winning” the Iraq War. Is this some hallucinatory nightmare? Yesterday President Obama announced that we are going to be sending 300 “advisors” to “advise” the Iraqi military on how to defeat an “enemy,” who is not exactly the “enemy” but plays one on TV.
Does anyone understand what is going on in Iraq? Not exactly. The politicians don’t. The leaders of Iraq don’t. Dick Cheney doesn’t. The current President of the United States seems to be a little confused, too. And easy to see why. This conflict has been going on for few thousand years and it’s always looked pretty much the same.

So we gave it a go ten years or so ago. Bush Two announced that we were going in to give freedom and liberty to the poor Iraqis. And how did that work out? Ask the hundred thousand or so dead Iraqis and the almost five thousand dead Americans. Ask the thousands of Americans who were lucky enough to come home from Iraq alive–give or take a few limbs.

So...another day, another shot at “winning” the Iraq War. And finally, we have something Democrats and Republicans seem to agree on: this is a very bad idea at a time when we should be thinking about doing just about anything else. Another POTUS was once faced with a similar dilemma. His name was Lyndon Johnson and his dilemma was called “Vietnam.” How did that one work out? We’re still dealing with the results of that one and we’ll be dealing with the results of this one for just as long. Maybe forever.