My Least Popular Opinion: The Iraq War Was Still Not A Mistake

Neither was Afghanistan, but the pullout was.  

Noisy voices on both right and left casually dismiss the Iraq was as some sort of horrible travesty - one of the dumbest and worst things the US has ever done. Really? Have we been attacked again by Al Queda? Has Saddam spread violence and instability across the region? Have WMDs spread in the region?

ISIS and Al Queda are exhausted forces. It's a practical miracle they didn't manage any follow ups post-9/11. Israel has normalized relations with almost all the Arab states.

If anything, the big mistake with respect to the Iraq War was France and Germany fracturing the UN and making it feckless.