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Called by New York Times columnist David Brooks the "smartest and most disastrous" critic of President George W. Bush's Iraq policies, Peter W. Galbraith was the initial expert to describe Iraq's split up into spiritual and cultural entities, possible that is now commonly accepted. The Iraq war was designed to make the United States more secure, bring democracy to the Middle East, intimidate Iran and Syria, help succeed the war on terror, consolidate American world command, and entrench the Republican Party for many years. Instead, says Galbraith:
- Bush handed Iran its most significant strategic triumph in four centuries.
- U.S. troops now fight to support an Iraqi government led by spiritual parties intent on creating an Iranian-style Islamic republic.
- As area of the surge, the United States created a Sunni militia led by the same Baathists the United States invaded Iraq to overthrow.
- Obsessed with Iraq's nonexistent weaponry of mass devastation, the Bush administration gave Iran and North Korea a free pass to advance their nuclear programs.
- Turkey, a key NATO ally long considered a model pro-Western Muslim democracy, became one of the most anti-American countries on the globe.
- U.S. prestige about the world come to an all-time low.
