By Invitation | Iraq, 20 years on

Kori Schake on how America has moved beyond the debacle of the Iraq war

A former Bush administration official says America will continue to lead the international order

Image: Dan Williams

The invasion of Iraq in 2003 and the mismanagement of what followed significantly diminished American power, making our security and prosperity more difficult and costly to sustain.  They were mistakes of historic proportions.  Yet they were not America’s first significant foreign-policy debacle, nor the first time the United States has been a flawed beacon of its values. In many ways, the failures of the Iraq war mirror some of those of the Vietnam war, and have already had significant repercussions in domestic debates and international attitudes. But, just like Vietnam, they have not meant, and they do not mean, an end to America’s global dominance.

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