Is Iraq lost?

Perhaps it's too soon to render final judgment, but I well recall that John Howard and Mahathir Mohamad, two world leaders who never liked one another, who invariably held a generally high opinion of their own views, and whom I always found fascinating in very different ways, could not agree on the wisdom of the U.S. invasion of Iraq.

Their perspectives of Iraq were sharply drawn. The plainspoken Australian prime minister would always insist that the need to maintain international security justified the Bush administration's decision to go to war more or less unilaterally.

For his part, the outspoken Mahathir, the long-running Malaysian prime minister (since retired) argued that: True, the invading U.S. military would prevail. However, occupying a far-off country, especially an Arab and Muslim one, would be difficult and so in all probability the Bush administration would lose the peace.

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