Politics

There Never Was an Iraq Exit Strategy

In the days and weeks leading up to the invasion of Iraq in 2003, there was considerable media speculation concerning the outcome of the war. There was one area in which all the pundits were agreed. The war would be won quickly and the difficulty would be in winning the peace after the fall of Saddam Hussein and Baghdad. The post war period would provide additional risk because Iraq was surrounded by the terrorist states of Iran and Syria. Well it seems that this most difficult part of the invasion, the planning that was necessary to create stability and order in a post - Saddam Iraq, never occurred. There never was a plan to win the peace in Iraq. There never was an exit strategy for the United States to leave.