> It seems to me that so far the Bush/Obama Administration is a roaring
> success. U.S. troops are (for the time being) permanently established in
> Iraq
The US is leaving next summer, with its imperial tail between its legs. The Maliki government, a modified version of Iran's theocracy, has been handing out oil concessions to Lukoil, CNPC and various European firms. The war on Iraq broke the back of the US military, cost $708 billion and at least 40,000 US casualties, and forever alienated the global semi-periphery.
The war on Afghanistan isn't being lost, it is *already* lost. The Afghans will not accept foreign rule, and that's that.
-- DRR