Does anyone remember the British disaster in Mesopotamia?- Iraq that is.
In 1920, a large-scale Shiite (recognize the name?) insurgency cost the British more than 2000 casualties. As a result, domestic pressure to withdraw from Iraq began to build. The result was what historians have called the "Quit Mesopotamia" campaign which remained an issue in British politics until the end of the British mandate in Iraq in 1932.
Add the years of unfulfilled expectations by the British to control Iraq from 1919 to 1932 and, guess what, even the weakest mathematician comes up with a 13-year involvement! And our geniuses in Washington have said it will take a few years, but were they really talking about duplicating the baker's dozen that the British experienced in their effort to subdue that place?
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