"Instead of following this low-cost path, instead we???re told Iraq was a grand idea and a success that the evil Obama squandered, even though it was a low grade civil war before, during, and after the vaunted ???surge.??? Obama???s motives in withdrawing may have been an instinctual anti-Americanism and a desire to ???empower the Third World,??? hence his snubs of old allies and courting of the Th" . . . .