My History Lesson

I don't fully regret supporting the Iraq War, given what we knew at the time, but there was one point about which I made a huge miscalculation:  the situation in the Middle East could not be any worse.

Egypt is now in flames and the Coptic churches are being attacked.

The lesson is - especially when it comes to the Middle East - things can always get worse.  And a horrible state of affairs that lead to 9/11 (yes, I still believe it was a regional and religious thing, not just the discreet issue of Al Queda) seemed to have gotten to such a bad place, I figured in some ways, the Iraq War would work as a reshuffling of the deck to a more optimal outcome for America and the world.  I would be wary of such thinking again.