Geopolitical shifts from the Second Gulf War

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This article is a nearly perfect summation of the disasterous outcome of the Iraq invasion. It shows the utter disaster created by Bush-Cheney. It should be required reading for all the neocons who visited this disaster on Iraq and the United states

The Second Gulf War has left the U.S. in an increasingly uncomfortable and potentially agonizing strategic position between the democracy in Iraq, which it helped install, and the Gulf monarchies, which the U.S. has long aligned with, but which now seek to eradicate democracy from the region root and branch. Siding with one will anger the other, balancing will anger both, and neutrality is impossible.

The perspective offered in the decade since the outbreak of the war does not show gains for U.S. national interests. China and Iran have come out much the better, and the region is much less stable for the war. This dismaying strategic position today, between democracy and autocracy, suggests that in another ten years the war’s denouement might be even less welcome than it now appears.

Link: http://agonist.org/geopolitical-shifts-from-the-second-gulf-war/