The Ultimate ‘What If’: A World Where America Never Invaded Iraq
06.28.2015 at 07:08pm
The Ultimate 'What If': A World Where America Never Invaded Iraq by Robert Farley, The National Interest
Every player of the popular video game Civilization knows to hit the save button before engaging in the risky, stupid invasion of foreign country. In the case of the 2003 invasion of Iraq, it became apparent after the first few months that the war was not working out as its framers had envisioned. The failure to find weapons of mass destruction was only the icing, so to speak, on the disaster of failed reconciliation, state collapse, and executive incompetence.
What if we had “saved game” before we invaded Iraq? What would America’s strategic options look like today?
