The last time I looked Iraq was still a bloody mess. The idea that it is doing well is ludicrous.

Those in the military today are not interested in helping the Iraqi people or the Afghan people. They are only interested in furthering their military pseudo-security aims.
In fact, they are undermining any real security the world has from Islamic extremists.

Khalid Sheikh Mohammed was working with Zawahiri in conjunction with the 911 attacks.
It has not even been successfully confirmed that the hi-jackers were really who the media says they were. There remains a question as to their real identity.

Blackwater and other paid private mercenaries are acting like a "ragtag bunch" in all three
Mid-east countries.

There is no way the Soviets would have enslaved the world. They didn't have the resources. For that matter, even Germany didn't have them as well.
WWII was a geopolitical decision that could have wound down through other ways
then the bombing of Dresden or the horrors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. But the political wartime jingoism and propaganda precluded a real solution to the problem rather than the
trumped up "oh-but-we-saved-lives-through-atom-bombs" argument.

As a matter of fact, the US had much to gain through military adventures. It helped bolster their economy at the time. Remember that even FDR didn't consider the plight of the Jews in Germany a priority. The Bank of America financed Hitler in the early days.
The Graf Zeppelin flew across America without protest. One of the reasons that Hitler was financed was that he was seen as a deterrent to the ambitions of the Soviets.

Today, the US occupation of Iraq and Afghanistan may turn out to rival the "glory of the Third Reich". It has become evident that war is the foreign policy solutions to the world's social problems.

Today, in the US, we have the typical "Wag The Dog" scenario. A wartime president has more clout than a peacetime one. There is no money to be made in peacetime pursuits.

The US military is not in the business of protecting the Iraqi and Afghan people but defending the right to control and govern these countries in accordance to their business dealings and trumped-up "security" concerns. Some of the American people are being played as puppets by fueling their failure to win a victory in Vietnam. As a result, these people support tin-pot generals and puffed-up bullies.

On top of all of this, the US military today is re-inventing the Crusades. Christianity vrs. Islam.