1st Insightful Piece on Iraq in Awhile

A really insightful article on Iraq and how to understand the "war" it needs to be thought of as two separate wars:

1. The War against Saddam

2. The War against the Al Queda led insurgency.

Currently, we conflate the two wars, which leads to continual obfuscation of the issues at hand. Many argue War 1) was a mistake and hence war 2) is a continuation of the same mistake. But we are fighting two completely different sets of enemies and war 1) is over and has been over since Saddam was captured and his two sons killed.

Mistakes from war 1) certainly led to the conditions allowing war 2) to take place, but it doesn't make them the same war...just like mistakes at Versailles led to WWII and unresolved issues from the American Revolution led to the Civil War.