IT BEGINS

US PLANS SIGNIFICANT MILITARY PRESENCE IN KUWAIT

Told ya so.

These are the facts [if you ask Michael Yon, Michael Totten, Bill Roggio, J.D. Johannes]:

By summer of 2008 the Iraq war was essentially over.   Under President G.W. Bush and Gen David Petraeus, the Iraqi/American alliance had won.

The next step was to win the peace.  Under President Barack Obama and an incoherent foreign policy based on publicly trumpeted premature evacuation, the Iraqi/skedaddling-American alliance is in the process of losing.

Everyone who was actually there knows that the job was left unfinished.  And it takes no great crystal balls to predict that we may well have to return and clean up our mess.

Told ya so.