Perspective: An overly expansive vision of American interests — and the blurring of economic, military and security goals — have long produced mixed results.
This history exposes that there are real limits to what the United States can achieve through military power. The primary military objective for the Iraq War — conquering Hussein and his forces — only took a few weeks and was an unambiguous success. But setting up and then sponsoring a new Iraqi regime, one based on American values and policies like capitalism and free trade, proved much more difficult.
That the Iraqi government could neither equitably manage the country’s deep sectarian divides nor provide quality of life for its citizens was fundamentally a political problem — but it was treated, and, a primarily military project. The United States poured billions of dollars into war, reconstruction and military aid, but Iraq could not be remade from whole cloth, and the United States could neither buy nor force the creation of the regional power it desired.
. The long-term fallout of the Iraq War suggests that the promotion of peace and stability cannot be reduced to discrete military objectives, nor can the United States impose its own economic values or interests upon another country without blowback. With the costs of intervention so high in blood and treasure, more acceptance and understanding of what the United Statesachieve through military might — as well as what it can — would lead to a more realistic and achievable foreign policy.
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