Iraq War failures color Biden policy on Ukraine
Kyiv, 2023. Baghdad, 2003. Two very different places, engulfed in very different wars.
Yet there’s an essential connection, brought into focus this week by the 20th anniversary of America’s ultimately disastrous invasion of Saddam Hussein’s Iraq.
The most straightforward tie? The long shadow of the Iraq War has colored every major policy decision President Joe Biden has made on Ukraine, ever since Russian President Vladimir Putin massed more than 100,000 troops on the border ahead of last year’s invasion.
The multiple ways in which America’s war in Iraq went wrong have made-how-to-do-it guide for U.S. involvement in conflicts abroad even two decades later.
