Presidentially fucked

It turns out our expectations were unrealistic and our plans were logistically flawed.

- We can’t squash the insurgency (who knew there’d be so many enemies who wanted a piece of us?)

- We can’t fix the electricity or water works (do we cut the black wire or the red one?)

- We can’t create a working national economy (I guess they need a secure environment, water and electricity to get that sort of thing running)

- We can’t forge a free democracy (but an Islamic Republic is close enough, right?)

- We can’t make the Shiites, Sunnis and Kurds get along (how were we supposed to know they hated each other so much?)

- We can’t prepare the Iraqi forces for the security nightmare they will inherit (we’re teaching them everything we know but it doesn’t seem to be enough)

In short: We went, we warred, we screwed things up—it must be time to leave.