One of Many Reasons Why the Invasion of Iraq Was a Mistake

It provided other states in the region with a relatively low-cost way to bleed America, both in the literal sense and in the financial sense: “Coalition raids target flow of Iranian aid to insurgents.” Indeed, the Bush administration managed to take out the two main neighboring enemies of the Iranian state (Saddam and the Taliban) and at the same time to provide a wealth of opportunities to attack U.S. forces with impunity. What more could the radical mullahs in Tehran have wanted?