Failure is not an option.

It comes as standard equipment.

NPR lays out the problem in terms a child could understand.

Iraq is a different culture from ours. It is also older than ours, by an order of magnitude apparently beyond our understanding. No one could foresee trying to change that might not be simple. Apparently because our leaders are too stupid to realize how little they know at all.

And now we the unknowing, led by the incompetent, are doing the impossible to people we didn't try to understand. We have gone so wrong for so long that we are now unqualified to do almost anything about it.

We are idiots, being led by ignoramuses. No one likes us. I think I know why.