People used to ask me what a victory in Iraq would look like
It looks a lot like this.
Scroll down at your leisure. Don't stop before you get to the economic stuff. Not all charts are up to date. I spent a lot of time looking at these Brookings reports over the years.
Yes. We won the damn war, and we did it thanks to a president who kept going when the Democratic Party was doing its damnedest to sabotage the effort. The mainstream media has done a pretty good job of burying the whole "surge" controversy in the deepest possible hole, but anybody who was paying attention remembers what the Democrats said and did back then.