stop a brutal authoritarian regime from threatening its neighbors/the world and cease its genocide against its own people, not to mention halt the environmental damage (draining of the Mesopotamian Marshes and the desertification of the region)
seize a country of 23 million people
occupy it for nearly a decade
resulting loss of only 100,000 Iraqi civilians and about 2000-3000 American soldiers
permanently alter the course of Iraq toward democracy, keeping it out of the hands of Iran and in Western hands
allows the U.S. literally to write the books on counter-insurgency and enhance its military doctrines
begins the era of drone warfare
produces kino such as picrel
How does it hold up? Does it respect the magnitude of what the United States accomplished with Iraq? or is it about >m-muh PTSD?