RonSonic wrote:

At some point the status quo of the middle east had to change. The preference
for "stability" had created an untenable situation. Iraq was turning into
another North Korea and one of those is already too many. As expensive as the
war in Iraq has been, it was undertaken knowing it would be costly

We were told that it would pay for itself with oil money.

and with the
understanding that inaction would be worse.

MIS-understanding, you must mean.

Robert