Commentary
Twenty years ago, then-President George W. Bush sidetracked from putting down the Taliban in Afghanistan to launch the unnecessary and inadvisable invasion of Iraq. From a strategic standpoint it served little purpose in the War on Terror. Iraq became a focus of Islamist terrorism that became out of control following the invasion.
The war added over $2 trillion to the U.S. national debt and refocused resources and likely will cost $6.4 trillion with interest over the next two decades.
Iraqi Christians, who prospered in the country before the war to a degree not seen elsewhere in the Muslim world, have been subjected to genocide….