how is that different from saying the US and ISIS have the same goals?
Both want to get rid of Bashar al Assad and his regime in Syria.
Both are enemies of Iran.
How so? I think the number of people killed during and in the aftermath of the Iraq invasion has been so much higher than the deaths caused by Saddam prior to the invasion.
i won't dispute that. Saying the west, like the US and Switzerland are the same thing is just as bad.
In what way was the war in Iraq not a failure?
Those who waged the war have said multiple times that regime change was not the goal, perhaps the means to reach their goal, but it wasn't a goal in itself. Is Iraq not worse off after Saddam? Of course it is, by all measures it is a lot worse. Is the world a safer place as a result of the Iraq war? of course not, on the contrary you've given ISIS a stronghold.