Addison Road

Bosnia is still trying to get it together, after eleven years. There are obvious applications to the current situation in Iraq.

It’s going to be awhile. There is one guaranteed way for Iraq to become a far worse mess than it is, and that’s for the USA to give up and leave. The history lessons here: Korea, Vietnam, Somalia, etc.
The argument will go on for decades about whether the USA should have invaded Iraq, whether more troops should have been committed, whether the aftermath was handled correctly, etc. It’s also pretty much a waste of time, now, in determining the direction of future policy. We’re there. We can’t leave till the situation is stable.

It will take years.

I’m not happy about this… but I truly see no other option.