t’s not whether you win or lose, it’s how you loot the treasury
The B*sh junta has formally embraced a new postmodern version of the so-called GWOT. "Winning" and "losing" are, after all, merely words, and it doesn't really matter if «The United States and the coalition forces ... will not be the thing that will defeat the insurgency», no, the really important thing is that the friends and family of the Coward in Chief continue to be able to pull in huge commissions for "security" and "reconstruction" in the vast wasteland that Iraq is becoming. After all, it's not as if anyone ever intends to hand over power to the new "government" -- they're affiliated with Iran and might tend to resist any attempt to expand the wasteland into Persia. No, no, it's better to just hunker down and continue to bomb our "ally" in the near east, because that bombing will allow the fascists to continue to loot the US economy for the forseeable future.
And if the United States reverts to a religious dictatorship, so much the better; The theocrats will be too busy doing their own version of ethnic cleansing to even notice, or care, that the United States has converted into a worse-off version of Venezuela. Perhaps the future of the United States is Haiti; a thousand years of dictatorships and palace coups, funded by the inbred rich who don't care how many people die, or how horribly they die, as long as nobody touches their blood-soaked money.