2. Ofc it is now clear to just about everybody that it was a terrible mistake
But I doubt the planners consider any part of it a mistake. They made the same "mistake" in Iraq, they made the same in Libya and they are trying their darn hardest to make the same mistake in Syria and maybe Iran in a few years. At what point do we stop calling them mistakes?
I hate to say this but I have come to believe that non of this happened because they didn't know any better/mistakes, they lied about their reasons for war in just about every of those countries. In Libya, they told us that Gaddafi used viagra fueled soldiers to terrorize the population and that he planned on killing innocent civilians when he only planned on putting down the armed insurgency in Benghazi a known terrorist safe haven.
I don't even know why I am posting this because most of it is going to be ignored in place of the latest Russia investigation "story" but one thing is for sure is that I feel so sick to my stomach that I cannot do anything about what is going on, none of the 2020 presidential hopeful was against this intervention or is speaking out now about it and that I have a good life in the US while my brothers are sister back home are being attacked.