I don’t think that the Democrats will do any better on Iraq than the Republicans. The point is that Iraq was a Republican mistake so they should pay a political price for the bad policy. We should never have gotten into Iraq. Our French friends warned us but we didn’t listen.
It’s like buying a house in 2003/2004. You have to take the big loss, swallow your pride and move on. Either that, or stay for the next 20 to 30 years.