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In reply to the discussion: Obama just announced the most anti-war foreign policy doctrine in decades [View all]Can you clarify your comments please. The U.S. did not lose in Iraq. President Obama campaigned on ending the U.S. involvement in Iraqi affairs and he did just that. There was no surrender, no peace talks. We simply ended our combat operations and came home. I was against the war in Iraq from the beginning but to say we lost it is not an accurate statement at all. I also don't believe that we went in to Afghanistan with the intention of conquering it. The Taliban was hiding Al Qeada members in the hills of Tora Bora. The US problem was that Bush quickly got bored with chasing people in the mountains and decided to focus on his real target, which was the oil in Iraq. We should have been out of Afghanistan by 2005 at the latest. President Obama has listened to his generals an he has also listened to his foreign policy advisors as well. Bush only listened to his inner circle and he ignored or removed any staff officer who disagreed with his decisions. Most generals do not want to waste their troops lives.