20 years? The US ousted the ba’athist government in less than a month and installed a sympathetic regime in less than two years. Even a pyrrhic victory is still a victory. The US got what it wanted geopolitically and the government they waged war against was ousted.
It was costly, unjustified, evil, and probably not even worth it from the cold math of empire but it was still a military victory.
20 years? The US ousted the ba’athist government in less than a month and installed a sympathetic regime in less than two years. Even a pyrrhic victory is still a victory. The US got what it wanted geopolitically and the government they waged war against was ousted.
It was costly, unjustified, evil, and probably not even worth it from the cold math of empire but it was still a military victory.
Nah