US Marine Corps war veteran Lucas Gage said every single member of his unit got PTSD after being stationed in Iraq - some even took their own lives when they got home.
we alienated americans from government and foreign policy. where you began this show, a lot of the populism in the country can be linked to the iraq war. clearly the isolation of it can be this is a classic case, not just a fwar of choice as i dubbed it but it was overreach that was the big lesson. the united states cannot go about the world, to quote john quincy adams, or maybe i ll put on my jon meacham hat for a minute, in a search of monsters to destroy we overreached the region. the united states, the world paid a real price for it. to further richard s point, right now, we are seeing a bipartisan group of lawmakers trying to claw back some of the authority to declare war from the executive branch pointing to this 20-year mark of the iraq invasion. admiral stavridis, want to get your thoughts on the anniversary. here we are 20 years later