katsung47, et al, You will never get the Congress, or either political party to openly acknowledge that they were wrong in pursuing the Iraq invasion. You cannot get them to admit that to turn Afghanistan away from an anti-Western, anti-American, posture and alter the radical Islamic approach to society - is a lost cause. (COMMENT) Even today, while US Leaders say they understand the consequences of intervention -- one can see with their intervention into Libya and Syria, that they really do not. We have made more enemies in the name of democracy than we have through any other cause. Most Respectfully, R