Bush doesn't learn from history?

I know, the headline is rhetorical. I got the idea for this post from watertiger who is riffing on John Bolton.

We should have turned Iraq over to the Iraqis sooner. We should have sent in many thousands more troops. We shouldn't have deposed Saddam. We shouldn't have disbanded the Iraqi Army. We should have supported the Iraqi people better. We should have never entered Iraq. We should have continued economic sanctions. We should have bombed Iraq into a sheet of glass. We should have tried more diplomacy. We should have enlisted the help of Iraq's neighbors to calm the country. We should have dealt with Muqtada al-Sadr earlier.

Even with the glorious luxury of hindsight, no one agrees on what should or should not have been done which is precisely why we should never have invaded in the first place. Duh!

Bush never understood the Mid-East nor does now, as if most westerners do, but he charged in like John Wayne anyway. There must have been some reason former presidents, including Bush 41 didn't invade. Double duh!